I believe that the main idea of “The Fury of Overshoes” is that guidance and advice is necessary, even into adulthood. In the poem, Anne Sexton writes, “Remember when you couldn’t buckle your own overshoes or tie your own shoe or cut your own meat and the tears running down like mud because you fell off your tricycle?” She implores the reader to remember their childhood, and the feeling of helplessness that accompanied it. She goes on to say, “... the world wasn’t yours. It belonged to the big people.” The “big people” Ms. Sexton is referring to are adults, such as parents and other authority figures in a child’s life. The author is trying to convey that children aren’t yet capable of living independently, so adults rule over their lives, controlling