Post by Kyra Benjamin on Dec 3, 2015 2:41:25 GMT
Both stories were about extramarital affairs but they each took opposing directions and I thought this was interesting.
Contrary to general conceptions and statistics as she herself mentioned, everything worked out for the protagonist. Although based on her tone in the beginning of the story you would think things hadn't and she was regretting everything. Her emotions kind of 360 throughout this story, so much that it's concerning and hard to figure out what her deal is but even she admits she would be labelled neurotic by today's standards. Despite the fact that its an affair with a married man she enters the relationship with overwhelming and baseless confidence but she loses that as she goes along, feeling stress and pressure from the unspoken rule of society to conform. She becomes pretty regular when she and her sister move in together, it seems like this was the most preferable situation of all and she was for the most part completely happy in this state. Comparatively, when her lover leaves his wife and marries her she gets extremely pessimistic and in my opinion almost bordering nihilism. Then magically as her husband gets the call from his ex about her remarriage, her condition gets better and after reflection seems to reach some sort of epiphany about everything and it all somehow is ok in the end more or less.
Labeling her is a bit hard; I couldn't say if I agree that she's neurotic or not but her reactions and change of emotions felt rather abnormal to me. I would have called her a realist but her belief in the success of affair and blatantly ignoring opposing evidence (the magazines) contradicts that. Her moods aside, she might fit relativism due to this.
Question: Do you think it would have been better had she stayed with her sister?
Contrary to general conceptions and statistics as she herself mentioned, everything worked out for the protagonist. Although based on her tone in the beginning of the story you would think things hadn't and she was regretting everything. Her emotions kind of 360 throughout this story, so much that it's concerning and hard to figure out what her deal is but even she admits she would be labelled neurotic by today's standards. Despite the fact that its an affair with a married man she enters the relationship with overwhelming and baseless confidence but she loses that as she goes along, feeling stress and pressure from the unspoken rule of society to conform. She becomes pretty regular when she and her sister move in together, it seems like this was the most preferable situation of all and she was for the most part completely happy in this state. Comparatively, when her lover leaves his wife and marries her she gets extremely pessimistic and in my opinion almost bordering nihilism. Then magically as her husband gets the call from his ex about her remarriage, her condition gets better and after reflection seems to reach some sort of epiphany about everything and it all somehow is ok in the end more or less.
Labeling her is a bit hard; I couldn't say if I agree that she's neurotic or not but her reactions and change of emotions felt rather abnormal to me. I would have called her a realist but her belief in the success of affair and blatantly ignoring opposing evidence (the magazines) contradicts that. Her moods aside, she might fit relativism due to this.
Question: Do you think it would have been better had she stayed with her sister?