Summary Of Nothing Comes By Hoffman

Hoffman came from a place where she was comfortable and expressive. When introduced to her new home, she was expected to convert to a language she found inexpressive and difficult. The lack of meaning in words caused her to struggle with basic tasks and caused her to feel distant from people. I can see where Hoffman would be confused trying to learn a “cold” English language, because eve with years of experience writing and speaking the language, I still don’t understand some of the rules of English. In some places of the passage, Hoffman states that she misses how in Polish, she could call people names and it would be taken lightly and forgotten, whereas in English people would be offended if someone called them an idiot. I sometimes get the same feeling because I try to make a sarcastic remark and someone always takes it the wrong way. …show more content…
I don’t however, understand how the author feels as far as her “night dialogue.” Hoffman states “I wait for that spontaneous flow of inner language which used to be my nighttime talk with myself, my way of informing ego where the id had been. Nothing Comes.” She also says that Polish is not as significant because it doesn’t apply to what she is not