Three girls

Oates has a great talent for turning everyday encounters into wonderfully strange stories. In my mind I have always pictured Marylin Monroe as a beautiful and talented starlett who was a little ditzy. This story makes me see her in a whole different light. What if she was that kind of woman who hid her brains because she assumed that's the only way she would get to where she was going. Something boggled me about the end of the story; why did Oates choose to pick the book of poems by Marian Moore to give to the girls. Is there something significant about that author. And as Oates writes it from one of the girls point of view what did kissing her friend have to do with the story line.