"Female Trouble" by Antonya Nelson
McBride found himself at the Pima Country psychiatric hospital in the middle of the day. "Don't visit me here," Daisy told him. She slid her palms over her frizzy white hair as if to keep it from flying off like dandelion fluff. "It embarrasses me, these crazy people make me ashamed."
"I thought you wanted to see me. I thought that was the point. Why else are you in Tucson?" Daisy, McBride's girlfriend of the year before, had been discovered on the highway near the Triple T truck stop carrying a portable typewriter, trying to hitch a ride. Native New Yorker, she'd never learned to drive; maybe that was why McBride had assumed she would stay in Salt Lake City, where he'd left her. He certainly preferred to think of that chapter as a closed one, a place he had chosen against.
I choose this story because I wanted to see what possible kind of "Female Troubles" this could be about. Starting to read the story I was drawn in right away from the opening. In the first paragraph there is already a conflict and an interesting one at that. While reading I was dying to go on to know why Daisy was put in a psychiatric hospital.
Antonya Nelson has a bunch of short stories read this to find out more.
Friday, February 28, 2014
Thursday, February 20, 2014
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you
have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to
improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll
go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Reading these quotes i found something inspirational and interesting. If you want to read others like these click here !
have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to
improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll
go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Reading these quotes i found something inspirational and interesting. If you want to read others like these click here !
Blog #2
"A Temporary Matter"
-Jhumpa Lahiri
For me i personally like a story that throws the reader right in . I enjoy knowing the characters right away and having them be relate-able. Other than that i enjoy stories that begin in such a crazy fantasy like way that its hard to not read. I enjoyed the beginning of Lahiri's story because I felt compassion towards the characters and I felt as if their situation was very easy to relate upon. When I read the line "The baby had been born dead." (pg 322) it hit me hard. Automatically I was forced to read on to see how this couple dealt with this tragedy.
One of my all time favorite novels is "The Great Gastby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Although the beginning of the novel doesn't throw you right in like i said, it makes you want to know more. The narrator starts off by telling you just enough about Gastby to make you want to know more about the mysterious character. The beginning of these text differ from each other greatly which i think is fair considering one is a novel and the other a short story. When reading a novel you know you have time to get to know the characters, while in a short story you have less time. What these two texts do share is the their ability to make the reader want to know more about the situation and characters.
-Jhumpa Lahiri
For me i personally like a story that throws the reader right in . I enjoy knowing the characters right away and having them be relate-able. Other than that i enjoy stories that begin in such a crazy fantasy like way that its hard to not read. I enjoyed the beginning of Lahiri's story because I felt compassion towards the characters and I felt as if their situation was very easy to relate upon. When I read the line "The baby had been born dead." (pg 322) it hit me hard. Automatically I was forced to read on to see how this couple dealt with this tragedy.
One of my all time favorite novels is "The Great Gastby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Although the beginning of the novel doesn't throw you right in like i said, it makes you want to know more. The narrator starts off by telling you just enough about Gastby to make you want to know more about the mysterious character. The beginning of these text differ from each other greatly which i think is fair considering one is a novel and the other a short story. When reading a novel you know you have time to get to know the characters, while in a short story you have less time. What these two texts do share is the their ability to make the reader want to know more about the situation and characters.
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