I Loved this story. I enjoy stories with this sort of sarcastic humor. I was waiting for the title of the story to show up in Zoe and Earl's conversation at first as humor but then maybe as a rude coment. However, all though it was not directly stated I think that this was how Zoe saw herself.
This story reminded me of a southern Romeo and Juliet. Although the burning desire was not equal on both sides then hidden romance was there. It showed how love is sometimes torn between what is right and what is seen as wrong by others.
I was wondering why there were no names used in the story only he said and she said, I was thinking that maybe they were not used to show that this could be any couple. Young timid, scared, and nervous. They begin to talk about arriving but i think that she is more comortable on the train and he would be more comfortable in a bed.
Let me just start out by saying that I am still a little confused on the matter of whether or not Balnce did sleep around at the hotel she stayed at before coming to stay with her sister. At first Stanley said she did and then Blanche said that she didn't and then Stanley said she did and then Blanche said that she did. However, when Blanche said that she did sleep around I was not sure if it was a scarcastic confession to Stanley. So I am going with the theory that she did sleep around.
Blanche had me disgusted with her and then feeling sorry for her and then liking her and then I felt she got what she deserved.
I was disusted with Blanche at the begining when she shows up and totally trashes her sister when she had nothing to call her own. Its kinda like the pot callin the kettle black. She had nothing, she lost her home, her job and she had no family to speak of except for the sister who graciously opened her home for Blanche.
Then I felt a little sorry for her seeing that she had so much gone wrong in her life and she could have not prevented any of it.
Then Blanche started to turn over a new leaf. She began to grow with Mitch. It seemed for once that she had feelings for someone other than herself. She was caring towards her sister however I do believe that she would have stayed prissy had Stella not been pregnant.
Now I do not believe that any person deserves nor should have to go through what Blanche did with Stanley BUT when she was takin away at the end of the story I did not feel sorry for her. First of all she did not even see that Mitch was there to recieve an explanation and not to give one. Even after Mitch had told her that he knew of her past. At that point she should have realized that skipping an invite to dinner was nothing compared to what she had done. It reminds me of the young woman in Machinal, if she knew what she was getting herself into then I have no sympathy just as Blanche could not be upset that her past gave her a bad reputation, she should have thought about that before she did the things she did.
Just because she had things go wrong in her life does not mean that she has an excuse to behave in the manner in which she did. Two wrongs do not make a right!!!!
So Ladies and gentlemen of the Jury.....
Guilty- she got what she deserved
Not Guilty- she is the victim
I think that a lot of people see things as did David Lehman in "The World Trade Centers" We look down upon, not only things but people if they seem to have it a little better off than ourselves, like they just are not worth it if they have not worked for it. In the poem for example it is not untill the trade center was bombed did he appriciate it.
Lehman compares the twin towers with the empire state building which has a very large history. It was built during the great deppresion which already says so much for it.
The history and triumphs of people and things are what make them known.
While a blog is basically an online journal, I have just recently learned that although I am to simply record what my insights are on a specific reading, the blogging is helping me to better understand each piece of reading. My first impression was to simply state what I did or did not like about the literature for example one of my very first blogs seems almost funny to me after reading the depth I had gone into the reasons that I found on why "Gatsby is not that Great" in the story of "The Great Gatsby".
Gender and Justice
In the short story "A Jury of Her Peers" I focused mainly on the treatment that the women in the stroy recieved form the male authority figures.
Gatsby is not that Great and I have yet to be open to suggestions that make me belive otherwise. I did see his overall devotion to Daisy and that he stuck with that however, I think that there is a larger list of "Not so great" things that he did and that list is much larger than him being a great person.
"Machinal" victim or suspect?
I have no remorse for a women who enters a situation knowing that she is unhappy and then is caught between a rock and a hard place and thinks that she has no place to turn but murder.
The "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is about love but in what scenario?
After discussing a poem with others and seeing a different point of view I still am not sure with what interpretation I agree with however, this may be the beauty of the poem, not knowing.
Seeing is not always believing
"The World Trade Center" teaches us a life lesson on how we need some sort of credibility to believe in something. We also see that we are blind to previous problems or occuring problems in time of tragedy.