Subject: here goes...
SkiFrog717@aol.com
Date: Wed Dec 12 2001 - 15:52:34 GMT
ok, so i guess i want to start off by talking about pretty mouth and green my eyes.
what intrigues me is exactly what will pointed out he was disappointed with (how the story is made up entirely of dialogue)- this way, so much is left open and i love how i can basically make up my own ideas, and i would love to hear what anyone else things...when i began to read the story and thought about the initial situation, lee asking the girl lying next to him if for any reason he would rather he not answer the phone, i assumed something was up- i dont know if i actually made the assumption that they were having an affair but i know it crossed my mind, so as the story goes on, arthur (did i mix up the two men's names?) complains about joanie not being there, and lee is giving the girl next to him looks. at this time i'm assuming the girl is joanie, from my initial thougths and how he keeps looking at her and is trying to keep calm, etc. after they hang up, her excitement and astonishment ("i feel like such a dog"- ??) justifies my assumptions even more. so when arth!
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calls back, at first i thought that he was blatantly lying and after he had hung up the first time decided he didnt want lee to consider him pathetic/vulnerable, i dont know-so he calls back to make himself seem for lack of a better word, better (?). i dont know. so that's what i had been thinking, especially since when they hang up the second time lee is incredibly upset, i thought it upset him that arthur was so ashamed that he had to call back and lie. at this point the story was puzzling but i thought i had it basically figured out and it wasnt until my friend asked me what i thought about it and he told me he thought that joanie really had come home. so i started to consider this a possibility, but then why was lee so upset at the end...why is the girl somehow a part of this triangle, her saying she's a dog/lee's looks at her...and so i started to read the story again, and here's what is bothering me: at the beginning when the girl is being described, they say soemth!
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n about her eyes are so blue they look violet? something along those lines. and then when arthur is talkign to lee and telling her about the poem, it says abotu green eyes and he says "she doesnt even have green eyes, her eyes are like goddamn seashells" that woudl make me think theya re brown... how confusing is this? so
my only possibilities so far are that: he doesn't know the color of joanie's eyes or it really isnt joanie. but then, the title of the story includes the green eyes, so wouldn't eyes play a significant part in the story? i don't know if anyone has noticed this or if it bothers anyone as much as it bothers me, or puzzles rather, but i woudl LOVE to get some feedback! thanks, jess
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