Thursday, September 12, 2013
Cecilia
An observation that I noticed from last nights reading was that at the beginning of the chapter, the narrators state: "we didn't understand why Cecilia had killed herself the first time and we understood even less when she did it twice" (29). I was wondering why would they phrase it like this. "She killed herself the first time" like she never was saved. Why do you guys think that they phrased it like this instead of saying attempted suicide to tried to commit suicide and act like she succeeded.
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Maybe it is because a part of her did actually die that night. Of course not literally, but, I think she changes and sort of recedes into herself and says "It was a mistake" when it wasn't actually.
ReplyDeleteAlso, afterwards, people were treating her differently and her home life became much more monitored than it already was and maybe to her, this was not what "being saved" really meant.