Reading "Warning" Jenny Joseph
-In "Warning," Jenny Jones considers all the things she can do when she is old. Why can't she do those things now?

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Throughout the poem, the speaker describes all the things she wants to do when she is old, such as wearing purple and running a stick along the public railings. She implies that she can't do those things now because younger women are restricted by societal expectations and norms.