A Sad Situation

In Margaret Atwood's February, the speaker has a bitter and sad view of love.  He sees it more as a death sentence, and a foolish act we perform as humans.  He shows his disdain for love when he says, "If we wise hominids were sensible, we'd do that too, or eat our young, like sharks.  But it's love that does us in," (Atwood).  His diction throughout the entire story seems to reflect emotional inactivity.  The scene of sitting alone with one's cat during winter is an extremely lonely one.  He reflects on the social interactions of the cat far more than of himself.  This man seems to be nothing more than a hermit that shy's away from any form of human interaction.  But at the end, this man alludes to possibly just being depressed at the moment.  throughout the entire poem, he reflects on how bleak love is, which could be compared to winter.  However, at the end he wishes for it to become spring.  This could mean he wishes to rise out of the hopeless and depressive state that he is currently trapped.