Middlesex: #5: B

Dear Desdemona,

I am very much enjoying hearing about your character in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex. I am so far at the point when you are in the silk room and you start to hear a mysterious man speaking rudely over his mother and past. I feel bad for how much guilt and dishonesty you and Lefty have to carry around every day. I can not believe that your husband is making you get a job, but maybe you might enjoy that more then idling at home. I thought it was interesting how much went on in the silk room too. “The Silk Room: a description is in order. (So much happened in that fifteen-by-twenty-foot space: God spoke; my grandmother renounced her race; creation was explained; and that’s just for starters.)”(151) I am also very impressed by the way you show that you are not perfect. Unlike your cousin you very much deal with your faults, instead of shoving them into the closet. I do not know how you could have managed to keep Lefty faithful during his bartending days.

--Best wishes for your new job!--