The bitter disappointment of the work's subject toward her fading beauty, and her apparent state of insecurity and negativity, seems all too relatable in this day and age, where countless women
despair over their appearance and struggle with their identities.
Either in confused obscurity about oneself and one's significance, or with a trace of hypocrisy, or by the help of cunning and sophistry which is present in all
despair,
despair over sin is not indisposed to bestow upon itself the
appearance of something good.