ENGL 1001H Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Goblin Market
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The goblin market is open for business all the times both morning and evening . The only people who hear the goblins cries are unmarried woman or maids . The goblin men have a variety of fruits, which all ripen in summer weather . Not only do the goblins have fruit from all different climate at their market, they have fruit that usually ripen in different seasons. They are described as brothers meaning they are all members of one group. Line 107 whisk-tail"d merchant inviting laura to taste their fruits, the tail could represent the devils tail since the devil is know to be persuasive. The goblins sound like the animals they resemble. After laura eats the fruit from the goblins lizzie reminds her about what happened to a girl named jeanie. Apparently jeanie listen to the goblins" calls in the moonlight and took their fruit as gifts . Jeanie ate their fruits and wore their flowers/pluck"d from bowers (150-151).