Susan Pigott notes that it is this woman, (rather than Eli or Samuel), who "voices the dismay all Israel feels" when the ark is captured.[1] Robert Alter suggests that the loss of the Ark "affects her much more than her husband's demise".[2] Yairah Amit disagrees, however, and argues that the weightiest event from this woman's viewpoint is the death of her husband, but that a later editor or editors "sought to show the woman as caring more about the ark than about her own fate, and put in her mouth a national-religious name etymology."[3]