This essay is about a girl, Rachel, who struggles with depression all the while exploring friendship, relationships, and her sexuality. I really did not like this essay for the reasons that this girl seems too messed up with drugs that her thoughts and ideas are so scrambled.
Her friendships are with a girl, Merideth, and her two homosexual guy friends, Eric and Christian. I feel that she is envious of the kind of relationship that those two share. It seems she would rather be with them than be with her boyfriend, Clint. She flirts with the idea of a threesome and it sounds as if her friends are indifferent to it so they have a "sleep-over."
I guess that with my beliefs on her lifestyle and her manner in general it is tough for me to feel any sort of sympathy for her. She screwed up her life by giving herself away and being a slut. She also mixes pot and smoking into all of this which can't help. She can't seem to find happiness and I think this could stem back to her family situation that we don't hear much about. I can't really express how much I disliked this essay and I have a feeling that if we are going to be reading essays like this for the rest of the class I will be pounding my head every time, heh.
Discussion Questions:
1. Do you believe Rachel's sadness towards life is a result of her family or her decisions?
2. Why do you think Rachel flirts with the idea of a threesome? Is it her unhappiness towards her relationship with Clint or her fascination towards the idea?
4 comments:
I believe that perhaps the idea of a threesome comes not only from her fasination of the idea, but perhaps from an underlying belief that maybe this will somehow bring them closer, that if they do this, she will truely feel like they're a group forever...I think she feels like some day, they're going to give her the boot and no longer have a use for her...I believe she uses the friendship she has as an excuse to escape from her pathetic little life...I honestly believe that she's brought her own unhappiness upon herself...she stays with someone who she's unhappy with and doesn't even try to find anything better...while clint may treat her well, she's finding herself bored with his company...she needs to let him go for good...perhaps then she might try to move on...Nice blog, have a good night!
1. That actually brings up a really good point that I didn't think of. She does mention her mother, and her relationship with her family, or lack there of, could be a cause of it. That's really observent of you and I agree.
2. I think that it is both of your reasons given. I think she's trying to pull herself away from Clint, but also I think that being she is so close with her friends eric and christian who better to be comfortable with. I was confused though when she began to talk about her and Christian I think it was, making out. If he's gay, why would he be kissing a girl? So it may be that it's a way for them to hide from everything else. An excape from what is reality and to pretend that things are different from what they are.
I think that her relationships did have a great affect on the things she did and was going through.I think that all just added to and complicated everything.
I'm wondering why you think she suffers from depression? Interesting...
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