Myra Breckinridge 1
February 23, 2009 kclovinlife
Myra Breckinridge is interesting to say the least. Beginning with her journal that her “analyst, friend and dentist” told her to write in for therapy she gives us right off the bat the idea that this book is going to be a “literary masterpiece” (2). The next page chapter 3 she tells us how she is going to “cease all together to be human and become legend like Jesus, Buddha, Cybele” (5). This girl is something, with her large breasts and nothing but “black mesh panties”. I feel like as a reader she wants us to not have any doubt that she is a beautiful voluptuous woman.
As for characters in the book she tells us that she is the widow of Myron Breckinridge the nephew of Buck a disgusting old fat guy who obviously wants to sleep with her. Buck and Myra both have agendas in what they hope to get from one another.
The form of the novel is self explanatory from the view point of Myra. When we get that one chapter from Buck the form is confusing. There is no periods and the words just run right into one another. Not to mention that he is a disgusting old man just as Myra warned.
So far I can see that like the first two novels we read once again we have a woman who is confused in some way in her life. I am interested in seeing where the novel goes with Myra.
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