Ashley Teatum
So instead of writing my paper about
how the communication supports the story,
I need to say
how communication is depicted in the story.
He says that
eating is the
small good thing, when in reality,
it is
communication.
We learn what happens
when the failure to communicate clearly occurs.
Yea, that's a good start.
That's a fuckin awesome thesis.
Who doesn't communicate clearly? Most obviously,
the baker with both Weiss parents.
You see, there seems to be what they call,
a screw up in the lines...
crossed wires of a telephone pole. You kno...
One person is talking one conversation,
while the other doesn't understand.
Or has his head
up his ass.
Please, like you haven't called your ex-boyfriend
and found you had to reacquaint yourself with him.
"Since when is your hair brown?"
Like you haven't had to explain
where all the fuckin plums went.
They were delicious, by the way.
So yea, I think I'm def. def. def! gonna write about
the baker's role in the story,
speaking of food,
and the symbolic whatever that Carver uses him for
to show what happens when people
fail to communicate clearly,
and how important, I suppose, that human connection is.
I mean, imagine if we were all bakers...
Shit.