Anne Sexton’s “The Double Image,” conveys the hardships of motherhood, present and past. The speaker, a woman who has tried to commit suicide twice, narrates her journey through herself, her mother, and her daughter. She describes what is presumably her depression and guilts as “witches.” In a way, she sees the fresh start of her new life in her child, and the hauntings of her old one in her mother. She see’s herself in the portraits of her and her mother, which are painted with perfect smiles but parallel each other’s hatred. She even refers to the painting of herself as her own Dorian Gray. Her daughter represents the hope she has for her future self.