Blog 4- Love is a crazy crazy thing

(originally posted on 9/14)

“This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it” (Written on the Body, p. 155).

Yet again our narrator has fallen back on the cushy little armchair and relied on cliches. The narrator is so torn apart by the fate of Louise and the downfall of the relationship that they have gone back to the comfort zone to find support. What happened to the narrator that said that “it’s the cliches that cause the trouble” (p.155). On that very same page the narrator contradicts itself. I feel like the author is sending us in loops, making us feel as crazed and confused as the narrator.

The ending was not what I expected. Is Louise there? Is she dead and her spirit is returning? Is she a figment of the narrator’s imagination? This book is full of ambiguities and uncertain endings, but maybe that is what the author is trying to get across to us. Maybe she is saying the answer is up to us or no answer exists at all.

~ by ashleylynn on September 27, 2007.