O.K.,” the woman said, looking down. “It’s between us.”
it is really sweet of the old lady to not go the police about Sasha stealing from her. Maybe she might of seen a women who has lost her way and is trying to do the right thing? maybe that's why she didnt turn her in
“You’re aware of how the theft makes you feel,” Coz said. “To the point where you remind yourself of it to improve your mood. But do you think about how it makes the other person feel?”
So does this line mean that feels some kind of guilt for stealing from people?
She’d glimpsed the wallet, tender and overripe as a peach. She’d plucked it from the woman’s bag and slipped it into her own small handbag, which she’d zipped shut even before the sound of peeing had stopped. She’d flicked open the bathroom door and floated back through the lobby to the bar. She and the wallet’s owner had never seen each other.
Describes how second nature it is for her to steal from people.
taking the wallet was a way for Sasha to assert her toughness, her individuality
Taking the wallet was a way for Sasha to come cross as tough. it sounds like she is trying to prove something no only to the world but also to herself. Mabye their is some underlying inscecurites she feels that is pushing her to be this "tough" girl
five sets of keys, fourteen pairs of sunglasses, a child’s striped scarf, binoculars, a cheese grater, a pocket knife, twenty-eight bars of soap, eighty-five pens, ranging from cheap ballpoints she’d used to sign debit-card slips to the aubergine Visconti that cost two hundred and sixty dollars online,
All of this stuff she collected look like just random stuff is there some kind of hidden meaning behind these things?
edifice
a building, especially a large, imposing one
esthetic passion
concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.
The homicide was overlooked.
I don't understand what this sentence means? is it about how there was more to the murder then meets the eye. that there was something that was fail to be noticed?
chimeras
it is a thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact impossible to achieve. (there are two different definitions)
gradations
a scale or a series of successive changes, stages, or degrees.
You want to suck my dick?”
I dont understand why this is in the story. what is the poinf of it? is he trying to sound funny? I feel like he was just being uneducated
“passed before his eyes.”
It reminds me of the saying, "as your life flashes before your eyes"
Anders did not remember his wife, whom he had also loved before she exhausted him with her predictability,
It sounds like based on his sentence, that him and his wife arent as close anymore. just based on when he said "whom he also loved before she exhausted him" Maybe because his wife was so predictability and exhausted him that is why maybe he did not remember her. Because of all that
He did not remember
I feel like Anders didn't want to remember or couldn't remember all the negative thing in his life or the things he felt like wouldn't worth remembering.
The bullet is already in the brain; it won’t be outrun forever,
This sentence gives me the picture of now the bullet is in his brain and as everything flashes before him. even though the bullet is in his head, the memories and flashes haven't slow down
I shall forget you presently, my dear,
have they already forgot them or are they about to forget them? or are they going to forget about them later?
“They have eaten me alive.”
I feel like this last sentence really explains what the poem is about and really gives an imagery of the draining process of taking care of 3 children as they take up much of her time. and worn her out to the point that she no longer feel alive, she's lifeless..she is just a empty corpse who's only person is to take care of her kids that's it.
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning
this line sounds like the speaker is the type to kiss and sleep with a lot of people and it is so many that they lose track of how many. that all of this is just a way for the speaker to maybe feel some kind of attention by kissing all these different people even though they are not really having a real connection with them. if you cant remember where and why you kissed someone, they probably weren't that important
The girls were pretty and the boys were boys.
Is this sentence talking about how during spring break with all the parties and fun times that spring break offers that it causes activities of girls getting hit on by the guys and engage in sexual activites because the girls are pretty and the envirment they are in
Meanwhile the elders breathe a grateful sigh; Vanished are rudeness, arrogance, and noise.
It sounds like the old people are happy that the young people are leaving them alone. It sounds like they cant deal with all their negative traits and now that they are gone it is like a breath of fresh air for them.
Trees overbended
When it talks about overbended is it talking about bending over something to an excessive amount or too far?
Men prefer a woman Limpid in a sunlight Held as a shell On a sheltering island … Men prefer an island.
I looked up Limpid and it meas free of anything that darkens. so after reading the rest, i have concluded that this is talking about men prefer a women who are clear, untainted in a way. Maybe it is describing how men like the women who have been shelter and raised around a shell who will only break out of that shell around them. Because it talks about on a sheltering island, that makes me think of being shelter as kids when we are little. It could also be that because a women is shelter then she will be that to her own children and that what a man prefers. A home where the women takes care of the children.
I kept waiting for the thud of your crash as I sprinted to catch up
This sounds a bit like the speaker wants be needed, he doesn't want her to grow up and not need him anymore. he wants to still be her hero, the one she needs when she falls. but as we see she can handle it on her own and he is just trying to catch up
my own mouth rounding in surprise when you pulled ahead down the curved path of the park,
I feel like this line is speaking about how the daughter did wobble a bit in riding her bike and her mother expected her to lose balance and to fall. so that's why she was shocked when she didn't fall but instead keep riding the bike down the park. I feel like this was a realization for the mother, that her little girl is starting to be able to do things by herself. she can handle things on her own like riding the bike even if it wobbles. I also feel like there is a hiding message in these lines. That it is talking about life. How the daughter may wobble sometimes in life but she will be able to keep going down her path despite it. That's why the mother is so shocked to the point her mouth rounded. Her daughter is growing up and she doesn't need her help as much anymore.
and its body, thinned into petals,
What does this mean? Is in a way a description of the snow or is it something else?
He doesn’t know what time is, doesn’t know how in no time those numbers will fill his days the way water fills a bath
This line talks about how just like the little boy, a child doesn't realize that what time is and how fast it is going. Doesn't realize that every second is precious and in a blink it will be gone. You don;t really realize that till you get older how much time has gone by
That’s hours, she says, the big hand’s minutes, the quick, seconds. And the boy fingers the pivot anchoring them, his touch stirs with the machine. I’m older now, and now, and now. The gears start to tick through every room of that house.
I feel like this sentence is one that really gives the tone to the poem. That as the young boy watches the clock, he notice seconds go by fast and life goes just as fast. That every min counts in life and he should enjoy his time while he is young because as that old saying goes "Time waits on no one" Soon he will be older in a flash.
Sometimes I take my English book and lock myself in the bathroom, say the thick words softly,
This line made me sad because you could feel Elena's desire to learn English so she could speak to her children so she didn't have to feel embarrassed but she has to hide learning English behind closed doors in the bathroom. Why is she hiding her learning? well maybe it because she doesn't have a lot of support or she feels embarrassed?
My oldest said, “Mama, he doesn´t want you to be smarter than he is.
To me what this line is saying is that Elena's husband does not want her to be smarter then him so her learning English is in a way threatening to him. because she would become smarted then him. It sounds like he doesn't know how to speak English, because then why would he feel like she would be smarter then him? Maybe he may feel that if she learns to speak English she would start to grow into a stronger independent women and he would be left in the dark not understanding his kids and now wife
a crazy old man
I feel like saying" the crazy old man" is explain how people see him on a everyday bases. That since this man does have Alzheimer's and some of his functions or actions are different, people just jump to the conclusion that he is crazy. I know this is a common misunderstanding with Alzheimer's and many other mental disorders.