- Rebecca inhabits her
- max is saying men and simple and women are really complex (men try to figure it out)
- Max finds the change that he sees in the narrator is unpleasant
- doesn’t want her to be older (would not suit her), okay with her outer look not her personality/self changing (not the right sort of knowledge)
- innocence, not age that is changing
- Knowledge: the expression that she has all the time left and something else took it over, (she loves the reaction)
- husband and father= not that different, a certain knowledge that should be kept under lock and key (did R get the knowledge)
- garden of eden: eve wants the knowledge and then has to leave
Right now I have around three areas of interest: happiness, the past, and pain. Connecting this to happiness, the narrator feels a false sense of happiness as she is transported from her reality into her fantasy. She allows herself to become completely overcome by her fantasy not even realizing that it is fake (a myth!!!). Similar to the myth of grosse point, ignorance can give a false sense of happiness. Connecting this to my other two interests, confronting reality or the past can both be painful and living in ignorance is a way to protect yourself against that, but by doing you so give up the chance to experience genuine happiness.
I really like how you fit in your area of interests to what we were doing in class. I was doing that with my AOI too, even though both of ours are different. I think thats pretty cool. I thought the part where she basically gets "inhabit[ed]" as you said by Rebecca was very creepy. I like how i think it was Bryant who said it was like an exorcism. I also thought it was creepy and weird how she referred to her HUSBAND as her father son and whatever the rest of that was I don't even want to continue because it weirded me out. Good post Talia.
ReplyDeleteThanks Narineh! I completely agree with what you were saying about the husband and father thing. This whole scene was just really strange.
DeleteThat passage is interesting, I've narrowed my AOI to explore the clarity of communication since as we discussed today there is no real way to know what someone else is thinking.Its not that there is lack of communication between the characters in this book, there is a lack of affective communication, some of it is on purpose however.
ReplyDeleteAnd in this book between mine and Talia's there seems to be this question of what makes something "genuine"
ReplyDeleteI was kind of confused in class in the sense of the narrator almost becoming Rebecca, but your post has made it much more clear. The line "ignorance can give a false sense of happiness" just kind of made everything click.
ReplyDeleteAlso i feel like the narrator doesn't even know the difference between real happiness and fake happiness because she's only experienced the fake that she doesn't even know there is a genuine.