Sexy By Jhumpa Lahiri
Usually when I’m looking for something new to read I go off of titles, I don’t read the reviews, I don’t read the blurb on the back, if the title catches my eye then I will more than likely pick it up and see what goes from there. So one day during my LIT 224 class I was going through the contents of our book and one story caught my eye, Sexy by Jhumpa Lahiri, I turned to the page the story started on and began to read. The story wasted no time getting someplace interesting, in the first page alone our heroine, who is named Miranda hears the story of a “wife’s worst nightmare”. She listens as one of her coworkers tells how her cousin’s husband had left her, he had found a new woman while flying back from a business meeting …show more content…
Sexy discusses this same idea, with practically the same terms. Miranda wants to know her value, in comparison with his wife, after a conversation where Dev said her wife has been complimented on her beauty Miranda is alarmed, she was there at the time and that’s why Dev chose her, Miranda only has use value, not sell value. Sexy also features the duality of words that’s found in Glengarry Glen Ross, in Glen Ross the salesmen talk about selling parts of real estate, the real estate is located in Florida and its name features the word glen, which evokes images of beautiful Irish countryside, the real estate does not at all look like that. Sexy talks about the phrase “sexy” which to Miranda means attractiveness and desirability, but to the kid means loving someone that you don’t know. In A Streetcar Named Desire the character Stanley is called primitive by Blanche, it is one of her main arguments against Stella staying with him. The notion of primitivism is also present in Sexy, except the genders are reversed, Miranda is just another girl, working in a shoddy radio station, she doesn’t even know where Bengal is, she doesn’t understand the Indian part of her name, nor has she been to a fine arts museum. Whereas Dev shows her all this and takes her to all these
Usually when I’m looking for something new to read I go off of titles, I don’t read the reviews, I don’t read the blurb on the back, if the title catches my eye then I will more than likely pick it up and see what goes from there. So one day during my LIT 224 class I was going through the contents of our book and one story caught my eye, Sexy by Jhumpa Lahiri, I turned to the page the story started on and began to read. The story wasted no time getting someplace interesting, in the first page alone our heroine, who is named Miranda hears the story of a “wife’s worst nightmare”. She listens as one of her coworkers tells how her cousin’s husband had left her, he had found a new woman while flying back from a business meeting …show more content…
Sexy discusses this same idea, with practically the same terms. Miranda wants to know her value, in comparison with his wife, after a conversation where Dev said her wife has been complimented on her beauty Miranda is alarmed, she was there at the time and that’s why Dev chose her, Miranda only has use value, not sell value. Sexy also features the duality of words that’s found in Glengarry Glen Ross, in Glen Ross the salesmen talk about selling parts of real estate, the real estate is located in Florida and its name features the word glen, which evokes images of beautiful Irish countryside, the real estate does not at all look like that. Sexy talks about the phrase “sexy” which to Miranda means attractiveness and desirability, but to the kid means loving someone that you don’t know. In A Streetcar Named Desire the character Stanley is called primitive by Blanche, it is one of her main arguments against Stella staying with him. The notion of primitivism is also present in Sexy, except the genders are reversed, Miranda is just another girl, working in a shoddy radio station, she doesn’t even know where Bengal is, she doesn’t understand the Indian part of her name, nor has she been to a fine arts museum. Whereas Dev shows her all this and takes her to all these