Lust By Bobbie Ann Mason Analysis

Relationships are a significant part of an individual’s like. The people that make up those relationships, the kinds or sorts of relationships they are, what those relationships are based (the basis for those relationships). They can make an individual’s life in one way or another. Ways never expected, it can be positive or it can be negative. But either way, it presents one with the ability to learn from it whether there be good or bad consequences that stem from it. It’s something to look back on, a humorous anecdote to tell while at some posh party that’s more boring than actual fun, a lesson to teach the grandchildren one cool night around the living room’s fireplace. In the pieces such as “Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason, “Lust” by Susan Minot, …show more content…
The protagonist was quite mindful, alert to those around her. She knew how some of her peers were better off than she was, especially with this fact being accentuated that much more with the author growing up within a privileged area. In her finally going to college, the author personally witnessed the obliviousness to those who were well off, this could go back, possibly relating to the lack of relationships, the lack thereof of exposure to people who were not of them, not like them. Because of this, those who attended the author’s college couldn’t quite get a grasp of just how hard life could be outside the not finding the right outfit. The author’s dedication in wanting to go to Stanford could have been morphed by the people around her and the relationships she observed throughout her life. She knew there was a difference between her and her peers, she understood that, she took note of that, and wanted to better herself, she did not want to fall into the cycle of a toxic stereotype. She applied herself, and strived to make it to Stanford. Without her relationship with her parent’s playing a pivotal role in her life, there could have been that possibility where she might’ve not made it to Stanford. She did what she could with what she had, the relationship she had with them, utilized it--whether it was constructive or negative or good or bad, and did what she had to do. In the end, it paid off. She sure made it to