Jerz: Am Lit II (EL 267): Moore, ''You're Ugly, Too''
It is strange what happens to a person when they have something wrong with their bodies. They tend to lose who they are and just focus on what is making them sick. In "You're Ugly, Too" by Lorrie Moore Zoe is just that. She has found that she possibly has something wrong with her and that is scaring the daylights out of her and is affecting the way that she is doing her job. The first section of the short story is riddled with italics that has something that one of her student's had said about her on her teacher evaluations such as "Professor Hendricks is often late for class and usually arrives with a cup of hot chocolate, which she offers the class sips of."
I know that when my dad had gotten sick right after my grandfather died he was just not himself. He changed if you will. It has been my experiance that when someone is facing something that is unknown to them (like Zoe was facing) that they put that on the top of their worry list.
Do you know anyone that is like this? If you do who? What do you think you would do if you were in Zoe's situation?
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