The Rest of Her Life, Week 6-Post A

VOCAB

Coquettish (186): to coquet: a woman who flirts lightheartedly with men to win their admiration and affection; flirt.

Begrudge (191): to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone)


FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

1.) “[…] a yellow sundress with a sweetheart neckline, like something a teenage girl from the fifties might have worn to a dance” (179). This is a simile because it uses “like” to compare two things.
2.) “But when she coughed she sounded as sick as she felt” (182). This is a simile because it uses “as” to compare how sick she feels to how sick she sounds.
3.) “‘You’re a tall drink of water, aren’t you’” (186). This is a metaphor because it doesn’t use “like” or “as”, but still compares him to a tall drink of water.

QUOTE

“It was almost impossible to imagine her mother walking through it, into this house where she lived as an adult, where she herself was a mother” (pg 178). Leigh thought this as she awaited her mother, who was coming to her house, and seeing her for the first time since she had left Leigh all alone. When Leigh thought this, I think she was probably excited to see her mom as most people would be, but I think she also felt resentment towards her mother. Her mother left her, and now is finally coming back not until Leigh is a mother. Her mother seems very selfish.

THEME

I think a theme in so far is regret. Leigh regrets not seeing her mother before she died, her mother probably regretted leaving her child, and Leigh seems to regret the fact she got so mad at her mom when she came back for the first time in about 20 years.