The Fat Girl Andre Dubus Analysis
Midterm- Females of Today
Do you think that Louise accurately represents a woman of our times? Why or why not? “The Fat Girl” by Andre Dubus is about a girl named Louise. Louise is an overweight girl. When she was nine years old her mother tells her that being fat or overweight is not pretty, when she gets to high school if she’s still overweight that boys will not pay any attention to her. Her mother would make her eat “bare” meals, if she at a potato during dinner she would have to skip dessert. As she got older she would, in public, deprive herself from eating anything that to society or herself considered “unhealthy.” Meanwhile, at night she would eat candy bars such as: Milky Ways, Butterfingers, Almond Joys, and Hersheys. She would
Do you think that Louise accurately represents a woman of our times? Why or why not? “The Fat Girl” by Andre Dubus is about a girl named Louise. Louise is an overweight girl. When she was nine years old her mother tells her that being fat or overweight is not pretty, when she gets to high school if she’s still overweight that boys will not pay any attention to her. Her mother would make her eat “bare” meals, if she at a potato during dinner she would have to skip dessert. As she got older she would, in public, deprive herself from eating anything that to society or herself considered “unhealthy.” Meanwhile, at night she would eat candy bars such as: Milky Ways, Butterfingers, Almond Joys, and Hersheys. She would