social constructs. It therefore seems that individuality is something one is or has and not an action. The speaker's individuality is clearly her dislocation as she deals with the death of a lover in her own personal way, and it doesn't make her less human but perhaps more human for the sake of being honest. Millay chooses to construct her poems by making the narrative as personal, internal, and articulate as humanly possible for the reader. Her ability to engage the reader in reflection not only on the character's notion of self, but also on her own, is made possible by her realistic and accessible construction of selfhood within her poems. Millay writes about an internal reaction the speaker has when she discovers, in a public setting, that her lover has died. The speaker doesn't show real emotion so much as offer hypothetical ways people would most likely expect her to react. Yet, she seems emotionally unchanged. Using the description of common expressions of emotions but not physical actions as examples, Millay might suggest that a conscious individuality is an internal understanding...