Myra Breckinridge 2
February 27, 2009 kclovinlife
Myra who??? All I can say is Holy Mother of God!!! “Is it possible to describe anything accurately?” (First line in Ch. 25) That is exactly what I feel like right now. There is so much going on in this novel. Gender issues, power struggles, race relations, sexual struggles, and who knows what else. I am having trouble writing something right now. We had such a constructive discussion yesterday I am still wrapping my head around the whole thing. Back to the beginning of chapter 25 as Myra sits in her room at the card table wearing one of Myron’s old dressing gowns she says “I could fill many pages of yes-no and still not bring the reader to any deep knowledge of what it is I feel at 7:10 p.m., March 12.” So now we are suppose to be figuring out how she feels? I guess I as a reader could never understand how she truly felt unless I was in her shoes. My question is, does she want us to know how she feels? I think that we do get little split thoughts here and there about what she may be feeling. Like after taking it from one of the four skins how she wanted to cut his peewee off and wanted to get revenge, but did she really tell us how she felt?
I can’t wait to finish this book and see what happens to Myra. I hope that she does give us the readers some insight as to how she really feels. I think that this novel has been the most effective in helping me to see underneath the text and look deeper into the novel.
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