Since she was a child she started to write poems and at the age of 18 her first poem was publish and appeared in the Athenaeum. She kept writing poems and one most known until now is “The Gobbling Market” in 1862. She was diagnosed from cancer and died in 1894.
Gobbling Market is a story about two sisters who is Laura and Lizzie and that it seems that they live alone because the narrator does not mention their parents or any adult. Both sisters are tempted to eat forbidden and delicious fruits that the goblins were selling in the market. Lizzie is able to resist buying the fruits and runs home, but Laura could not resist and buys the fruits. She pays with her own hair and as she is eating the fruits she wants more and more. When she returns to her house and tells her sister what she has done she says to her that she would come back for more fruits. However, Laura can no longer hear the call of the goblins saying “come, buy” “come, buy from me.” She rejects to eat the fruits and starts to age prematurely. Lizzie starts to see how her sister was getting old and decides to look for them to buy the “antidote” (fruits) so that her sister can recover from the poison. The goblins thought that she was going to eat the fruits but when they saw that her intention was to take them home to give to her sister, the goblins got mad. They all begin to tearing her clothes, kicking her and throw all the fruits at her. The goblins try to put the juice of the fruits in her mouth but she resist and runs away to her house. She tells her sister Laura to drink all the juice from her body so that she can recover and that’s were she feels the bitter taste. Laura starts dizzy from consuming all the type of fruits but the antidote does works. Now she tells the story to her children of what had happened to her and reminding them that “there is no friend like a sister.”
In the story I found symbols such as the different types of fruits such as strawberry, blueberry, watermelon which means sexuality and temptation at the same time. Another symbol is Laura because she was attempted just like Eve when she eats the forbidden fruit. Also, in this case the gobbling was the one who tempted Laura and in Adam and Eve it was a snake that in reality was the devil.
In this story we have the Hero Archetype, who is Lizzie the only person that was not attempted to eat the delicious and poison fruit. She rescues her sister from the spell and she also sacrifices her self to get the antidote for her sister. Laura is the innocent who trust the goblins by eating the fruits and not think twice what she was doing.
I really like the story because it shows how two sisters were so together and that Lizzie sacrifice to help her sister Laura. But I can not erase of my mind the sentences of the goblins replying “Come buy”, “Come buy.” This story gives us, as readers to learned from mistakes and not trust anyone that in the future can cause consequences.
1. http://polarbearstale.blogspot.com/2009/03/john-liston-byam-shaw-1872-1919.html
4. http://www.poetseers.org/the_great_poets/british_poets/rossetti/
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