March 26th

So today I am decided to go back to what I wrote about in one of my first journals.  I mentioned how latching a screen door is not the most efficient way to keep someone out, if that is your goal.  The same goes for when the speaker's parents "pull venetian blinds,"  the poem does not say they close the windows they marly pull the shades down.  While the parents are definitely trying to keep their children out of the house, I wonder if they are purposely not locking the house completely up.  And despite their effort to prevent the boys from seeing, the speaker says in the end "I knew if I held my right hand above my eyes like a gambler's visor, I could see how their bedroom door halves the dresser mirror like a moon held prisoner in the house."  Clearly their is ways in which the boys could see what is happening, and I fail to understand why the parents would halfhazardly prevent the boys from looking in.  What do they not want them to see, but want them to hear?