Being a woman is different from being a man. Women do have difficulties living with men. In the poem " Living in Sin", the author, Adrienne Rich, has showed the difficulties of their life, and the horrible relationship through her figurative language, and imagery. The imagery reveals the difficulties and differences between men and women. First, she has "A plate of pears, a piano with a Persian shawl," in her life. A plate of pears represents …showed first 75 words of 231 total…

…showed last 75 words of 231 total…the daylight coming like a relentless milkman up the stair." These two lines contain both overstatement and irony. When the night is coming, she feels relax and back in love because she finishes all her work, and she can take a rest. Contrarily, when the morning is coming, she feels disappointed because all the annoying things will happen again. The carelessness of her mate makes her feels bad and she will no longer stay there.