Analysis Of Disappearing By Monica Wood

The short story “Disappearing”, written by Monica Wood, is about an overweight woman who falls into an addiction. Nowadays, society has been changing a lot and specially in the way people should look in the exterior. As we can see in T.V., movies or magazines models are now with perfect bodies. But people should as themselves whenever they see this, “what is really a perfect body?”. The perfect is how you feel and whatever makes you feel comfortable. There will always be people that puts you down but whatever you feel comfortable with is what is important. In the story, the narrator was not worried about her external look as much as she should for being an overweight woman. However, society still affects her in many different ways because …show more content…
As the story goes by, realizing that she is not doing it to change her external look, Lettie her friend tells her: “You have to swim a lot to lose weight. You have to stop eating too.” (191). The narrator replies: “I´m not doing it for that I told her but she wouldn´t believe me. She couldn´t imagine”. (191) This is where the author makes us realize that the narrator really does not care, but at the same time how society has a wrong idea of the external look of the human body. However it makes us see that Lettie can not believe that she is not doing it to loose weight even though she has to loose it. This is another example of how society just for being fat thinks you have something …show more content…
The narrator shows out her inconformity of how she is feeling with herself in many different ways, but one of the main ones is with the attitude she has with her husband. When the story starts the narrator talks about her intimate relations with her husband: “I just lie in the deep sheets and shut my eyes. I make noises that make him go faster and when he´s done he´s as far from me as he gets.” (190) By the way she describes it and specially at the end with “he´s as far as me as he gets”, we can tell that something is wrong with her. That she is not feeling with with herself and appreciated. Another way we can tell she feeling bad in her inside to is for the way she felt invisible for someone and whenever someone responded to something she was impressed. When she was called in a nice way she could not believe it, she was told: “One had yellow hair and called me ma’am.” (191) This is another example of how she does not validate herself, therefore we can tell that something is wrong in her inside