Sunday, April 1, 2007

Are these Actual Miles?2

“ ‘Go ahead,’ she says thickly. She stands there swaying. Then she makes a noise and lunges, batches his shirt, tears it down the front. ‘Bankrupt!’ she screams. She twists loose, grabs and tears his undershirt at the neck. ‘You son of a bitch,’ she says clawing.”
(page 589 Are these actual Miles?)
This quote is cool because it the truth. She isn’t hiding behind and façade she is upset. Earlier in the book she is so calm and collected while Leo is the one who is freaking out the whole time but here she is being honest, mostly because she’s drunk but it’s a real moment. A moment of the hurt and pain she has been feeling the last few months but she clearly hasn’t been able to let it out under normal circumstances. Like so many people she has gotten caught up in normalcy living life like her happy and ‘normal’ but like everyone she isn’t and has suddenly been thrown in this problem but doesn’t know how to react, so like so many people she has turned to alcohol to hide her pain and with it she can voice her true opinions where sober she was not brave enough to. Here she is mad and hurt in a world or seemingly happy people and that’s what makes it real.

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