“The Fat Girl” is not one of my favorite short stories. It’s not really the genre that I prefer reading, so maybe that is the reason; but even besides that, I was really unsatisfied with the ending. I wanted the main character to be released from her food addiction. While I thought it was great that she accepted her body and herself the way that she was, if only for health reasons, I wish that she could have been delivered from what I consider to be an addiction. A lot of people that over-eat do it because of an emotional trauma. I think that the main character over-ate because of rejection from her mother. When that wasn’t resolved or even considered, I found myself a little disappointed. When we discussed this text in class, someone brought up the fact that the main character was never content when she was skinny. Yet, I would also argue that she wasn’t very happy overweight, either--until the end, that is. Even still, I felt that that happiness was not going to last. Food can’t replace companionship; and I feel that is was the main character was lacking in the first place that drove her to overeating. Besides what I consider flaws in the storyline, I liked the author’s writing style and would probably read more of her work in the future.
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