Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Three Girls

After reading Oates' story of the Three Girls, I was shocked to think that this was considered great literature. Granted there was an unusual setting and it did not follow the conventional pattern of formula fiction or any typical fiction for that matter, however to say that this story was great would be highly insulting to the 'great classics' of literature. Maybe I'm just naive, but I really don't see the point to the story. Some girls go into a bookstore & ogle over Marilyn Monroe shopping there. As the text states, “We couldn’t resist, we had to follow! Cautious not to whisper together like excited schoolgirls, still less to giggle wildly as we were tempted…”
In regard to Sandra's comment's that she see's the actress in a new light, this is in all likelihood a fictitious story and the author most probably only used her name to make a point that some actresses may actually have brains and not just the superficial people that they appear to be on the big screen. The narrator relates to us, that “of course, the blond actress in Strand Used books wasn’t herself, not at all glamorous, or “sexy…” hardly a Hollywood celebrity, a movie goddess.” With all this in mind, I’m still sticking to my guns and contending that this story should not be considered great as it’s just another story about two girls in a used book store.

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