Write a critical analysis of Plath's "The Applicant", bearing in mind the voice of the speaker

... Write a critical analysis of Plath's "The Applicant", bearing in mind the voice of the speaker. The Applicant hinges upon the central idea of how human relations are a cynical filling of a physical need, and how marriage is the last resort of crippled personalities, where women are no more than a set of appendages and functions. The Speaker addresses the readers directly, with the constant referral to 'you', making the poem even more disturbing with the realization that we too are the potential applicants, where the fragmentation of alienation of the applicant are also part of our world. The interrogative, formal tone begins the poem as an interview, "First, are you our sort of person?" where the applicant is harshly torn down as parts which characterize his self, as if he is a cog in a bureaucratized market place forced to engage in the exchange because of his own inadequacies.

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