Readings

9/10 A&P

RR #1 I found this story sort of boring and repetitive. I like reading stories with meaning and I felt like this didn’t have much of one. I like how much description there is in the story as well as the way they do not have a care in the world as to what their outer appearance was. I figured this story takes place a long time ago with their reaction to what they are wearing, and considering they had pin curlers in their hair and were referred to as “house-slaves”. Class notes: The sheep were the customers walking throughout the store, pushing carts around, also to referred as house-slaves. The setting is in the middle of town, two banks, church, real-estate offices....late 50s or early 60s. Lengel dumps on the girls because he is in an awful mood. RR #2 Three of the poems use nature or trees as a resemblance of something. Trees in the poems are depicted as something peaceful and graceful. One of the poems says “I shall have peace as a leafy tree has peace. Insinuating that it is broad and alive. I am not quite sure what to make out of the first poem, I don’t connect with it nor am I able to decide a meaning to it. It’s simplicity is maybe what is so special about it. In the last sentence of the last poem, I find it ironic because he says that poems are made by fools like him, but trees are made by God...yet God is the one who made him as well. Class Notes: Maybe the red in the wheel barrow stands for, evil...bad. The white chickens is a prime example of nature. The white might mean pure. - First Poem. Anticipation is greater than realization. - Second Poem. The guy is mourning her death over her grave, but she is talking about how she is cold hearted because he clearly hurt her. - Third poem. RR #3 It seems as though as the storm passed so did all the messiness in the story. Calixta and her old flame both show moments of weakness’ but calixta I think realizes once her family gets back that is who she truly loves. I don’t understand why alcee told his wife...