There are some things about this story that I like and I don't like. I don't like how the story starts off very weird and strange. It's very off-putting for me. things are too rapid things aren't allowing me to settle to all this hustle and bustle about some corset not fitting and broken. He has an exchange between two characters that we don't even know yet. Then the main character is thrust upon the streets of New York City. There they give their opinion which again I don't like. They talk about how the city is great and one aspect and terrible and another. News flash, if you don't like where you live you can always leave. then she trips herself through the streets until finally she gets to the shop that has what she's been searching for. The description up to this point of her world is eclectic to see the least. When she steps inside of the shop I can feel myself transported there but I don't want to be. I like the description of how the sounds coming from the radio, "constructed from straight lines and corners." Obviously, everything goes downhill from there. Miss Adele believes that there is some harbored hate coming from the store owner. This is what I don't like about the main character, not necessarily about the writing, that Miss Adele believes in unsubstantiated comments thrown her way. I really do like however the verbal back and forth or at least one way from Miss Adele to the store owner. It is also funny to picture Miss Adele running down the streets looking as crazy as she does as passerbys must wonder who the heck this lady is.
I agree, because when I started to read it I was confuse on what is going on really. So I read it for the second time and it was the same thing but i thought I was the only one with this issue.
ReplyDeleteNice response, Ashley, esp. the quote about the radio. I wonder, though, why should Miss Adele have to leave? I complain about NYC all the time. In fact, nearly everyone I know does. I would almost think it's weirder never to complain about the city than the opposite.
ReplyDeleteI agree w/ both of you that the story is chaotic. Do you think that maybe Smith intends it to be that way? Why would she want to confuse you?