Cottage Life
Cottage Life is a very interesting piece of writing to me. In the first few paragraphs she sets a scene without specifically describing it. I pictured the cottage i used to go to in the summer. I got the feeling that they had wonderful, lazy summers. As she is looking through all of these possessions she is remembering. Each piece triggers another memory and she describes them. Some of the descriptions are short and vague, like when he took a photo of her with the white face mask on and others were very drawn out like when she remember the first time her lover saw her breast in the attic.
I think it is interesting that most of the lines in this story are short and choppy; just like a flashback, which is often short and choppy. I liked the line where she says, "When did I lose the right to my free time?" I think what she means by this, is that her life has gotten so busy, it's like she's lost the right to those free, lazy summers.
She seems like she may be a little bit insecure. She mentioned how she would only like to make love in the dark, and how she was self-conscious about the birthmark on her chest.
The last line says this, "Maybe there was one night of him possibly hearing us fuck and stir and fight and whisper and distrust and smother and Cherish, and wake up together." It sounds like a run-on sentence and doesn't make a whole lot of sense at first. But, the whole story is kind of like a run-on memory. I think what this means is that although they had been through so much together over these summers, they still loved each other, and woke up to each other every morning.
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