A Game of Chess

In a game of chess, everything seems to be clean, neat, and strategic. The connotation of chess seems to show that it's a mathematical, thought-out game. In the part "A Game of Chess" in The Waste Land, the story seems to be anything from a game of chess. The first paragraph/part/verse starts out with a woman in a chair, observing her objects around her. In the page long verse, there are only three periods. The use of commas serves to make it seem like the woman is looking around quickly and taking in all of her surroundings. This passage made me wonder about who the narrator was, and if he or she was in the room with her while she is looking around. It all seems very vivid since there is plenty of imagery and full of sensory details. As the reader gets to the next page, things seem to fall apart for the woman. The passage now switches to dialogue that the lady is having with herself and she seems paranoid and scared. She hears the wind and worries about the noises. But what is she scared of? Is she scared of the man that has, "pearls that were his eyes"? Or is she scared of, "the knock upon the door"? From the last verse, she seems to try to get a grip on herself since she is able to focus on details like "hot water" and "rain". And maybe she even wants to play a game of chess to clear her head and put herself together again, since the connotation of chess is one of order. I really liked this passage; the writing style was very interesting since the reader can see the transition from order to disorder in less than two pages.