Everyone in "Four Summers" seems stifled by their environment and stuck where they are in life. In the narrator's case, this seems to result in her antipathy toward many of the other characters in the story (as well as her idolization of some of the other characters). Is this antipathy a necessary consequence of the lack of options available to these people?
By way of answering this question, choose any other character in the story and write a quick character sketch of Sissie from their perspective. Set your sketch in any one of the "four summers" depicted in the story, but be conscious of how this choice affects your work. As you write, you'll want to consider both how Sissie's appearance to others might differ from her self-perception and how a different personality type might deal with the constraints of this environment.
No comments:
Post a Comment