The Faery Handbag By Zofia Analysis

Readers will quickly find themselves completely immersed in “The Faery Handbag”. The imagery used in this story is incredible. Leave it to Kelly Links, the author, to use her extraordinary imagery. The story begins with a girl named Genevieve with her boyfriend in a place called the Garment District. “The Garment District is a place is Boston where old clothes go to die.” (Link). The author is trying to describe this place like a donations store for clothing items that don’t fit, or are too ragged. Genevieve’s grandmother, Zofia, is a wise old woman who always carries an odd handbag around with her. Nobody knows what magic the handbag truly holds. Genevieve always enjoys going to her grandmother’s house to listen to her stories, stories that
It was a small village along the topside of a hill, under the hill however, was another small civilization of “Hill People” the people were full of cute women who couldn’t cook good at all and couldn’t take criticism about their cooking. If you did criticize the women about their cooking, you may not seem them again for a week, a month, or even years. Zofia’s story goes that the shaman priestess of the village used fortune cards and saw that raiders were coming and there wasn’t anything they could do to stop it. The village people would go live with the people under the hill when raiders come, but this time shaman priestess also saw that an earthquake would happen, and the hill would be split open, exposing everyone. The people began to panic and the priestess told them they must kill and skin a black dog and use the skin to make a purse big enough to hold a chicken, an egg and a cooking pot. The village people did this and then the people under the hill made it big enough to hold the entire village and all the people under the hill and everything else. It was a whole new world inside of this purse. Zofia claimed to have been from that village, and 200 years
She is rationalizing and making up reasons for why her boyfriend and grandmother left her. She is convincing herself that he is still somewhere she can find him. She wants to believe that if she can just find her grandmother’s handbag she will find him inside and everything will be okay. Her grandmother may be gone, but maybe she can find him. She is trying to find someone or something to blame. So, she makes up this whole story about the people in her grandmother’s handbag. It’s a happy place with strange people who love popcorn. Why wouldn’t someone to go there? She convinces herself that he didn’t really leave her. He’s just gone for a bit. He’ll be back. This poor girl is just trying to cope with her loss by making up something makes it not seem so