Marks by Linda Pastan

The author in the poem demostrate how this women is interested in the way her family grades her by the way she does things for and with each menber of the family. Her worst grade is the I (incomplete) which her husband gave this could be convert to an A upon completion. So the speaker is making pretty good grades, meaning that her family is satisfied with her performance, but also realize that they must be constantly evaluating her, or why else would the speaker feel the need to observe their evaluations and comment on them. At the end of the poem after this grades she takes a decision of "droping out" this could be interpreted in different ways for example she is going to commit suicide or leave the family. But because her grades are good, and also because the tone of the poem is playful, it is unlikely that her "dropping out" signals such a drastic action. Still there is room for multiple interpretations in the poem.