So, Wyatt's wife discovers about the affair between Susy and him and says it to Susy's face. In these past 69 pages I have read there has been a growth in Susy's unhealthy relationship with her teacher. Wyatt had fallen in love with her and she fell in love with him. Now in comparison, she comes home to her mom telling her she had been raped. Something highly unbelievable since her mom had been a pathological lier since day one. Susy leaves for college soon and she moves to Boston; which means that her relationship with Wyatt was over. With a new college experience underway Susy met many guys, more like men, that made her grow up. I have definitely reached the "bulidungsroman" section in the book. Susy is not a little girl anymore; she was a senior at college who's mother was still trying to take over her life. A life that had been slowly molded on the foundation of the mother's pure craziness and abruptness.
Pages 135 - 204
Quote:
"Not speaking to her was how I had protected my fresh romance (she had left me no choice, I told friends), but when I sank into her neck I felt crippled and empty for having made thing that way." (Sonnenberg 184)
Reaction:
Sonnenberg conveys all of Susy's emotions with every word she writes. "Not speaking to her" showed the pain inside of Susy towards her mom, "how I protected my fresh romance" shows how Susy isn't a little girl anymore but a grown woman", and "I felt crippled and empty for having made things that way" show the love she still has for her mother. Susy does get frustrated with her mother and they both say and do things to each other they don't necessarily mean. No matter how annoying mothers may get they are mothers in the end; no matter how bad they are they are till your only true best friend. Susy's mom knows how to lie and cheat and steal; but she still has that sense of motherhood in which shows a soft side to Susy.
