He'd become a house-husband and father, a little plump around the middle. He wasn't about to let the drought be caused by nature. Teiresias predicted twenty happy years. The children are grown. I'm weary of humans' needs, men's drama.
Life is so simple, so beautiful.
But Oedipus, as so many men, is addicted to anguish, addicted to creating problems out of the nature of things. I have had more than I ever dreamed. Surely someday a time will come when man will agree to happiness. After he learns to save the autumn leaves, man will invent death. So saying, being human, she hanged herself.