He didn't bother talking much to them, but around his bent headConnie's mother kept picking at her until Connie wished her mother was dead and sheherself was dead and it was all over.
It is surprising that a teenage girl would wish for both her mother and herself to die just because of family arguments.
she knewshe was pretty and that was everything
It shows that Connie’s entire sense of identity is based on her appearance.
How do you know what my name is?" she said suspiciously
It’s troubling because she never said her name but he knew it.
She told the blind man she'd written a poemand he was in it. She told him that she was writing a poemabout what it was like to be an Air Force officer's wife
It’s interesting because it shows how deeply the blind man influenced her inner life. Even years later, she still felt the need to share her emotions and experiences with him through poetry.
On her last day in the office, the blindman asked if he could touch her face. She agreed to this. Shetold me he touched his fingers to every part of her face, hernose---even her neck!
It surprises me because I never imagined that touching someone’s face could be such an intimate and meaningful act, especially between two people who were not romantically involved.
She went in and swallowed all thepills and capsules in the medicine chest and washed them downwith a bottle of gin.
It troubles me because it shows how hopeless and desperate she felt in her life.
Personally I believe that congenial work, with excitement andchange, would do me good
I find it interesting because she understands his symptoms and needs better than her husband ,who is even a doctor.
You see, he does not believe I am sick!
It surprised me that her husband, who is a doctor, doesn’t believe she is sick at all. I would think a doctor should trust his patient’s feelings, especially when the patient is his wife.
I don’t like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs thatopened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, andsuch pretty, old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John wouldnot hear of it.He said there was only one window and not room for twobeds, and no near room for him if he took an other.He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir withoutspecial direction
This passage is troubling to me. John calls himself loving, but he controls every part of her life.This didn’t make her condition better,but made it worse.