Bitch by Joyce Carol Oates

In this story the writing technique of the authors writing changes. She repeats the beginnings of sentences a lot, using them for five or six sentences after that. A lot of the sentences are written in a confusing way, as if backwards. "Before the ambulance and the hospital and the elevator to the eighth floor which had become her life things had not been exactly good and yet not-good in a way of meaning not-bad, considering." I had to re read this a couple of times before realizing that she meant the girls life was not good or bad, just normal. This story is written as a person would think, their mind jumping to different places and questioning things on the way.

This story was very different than the rest of her stories as I said, and i think this is one of the reasons I liked it. Although it was slightly confusing it made you want to know why the girls father called her Poppy. It made you wonder what had happened to her father and what her life was like before and after. That is the one thing that stayed consistent with the story, being very ambiguous. I would recommend this story for people in our class to read.