Journal Entery

Date: October 15, 2007

Entery Number: 2

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pg. 3

I find it interesting how she gives us insight to her life after New York and after she got better, which really means after she found herself again and stomped out the crazy insane person who had taken over for a while. "...last week I cut the plastic starfish off the sunglasses case for the baby to play with." So after she gets over her insanity she gets married and has a baby. I wonder who she ends up marrying. It must have been someone special to be able to persuade Esther into getting married, which she lied about constantly but really didn't want to. It's a good thing that she did end up fitting into one of the castes of society for women back then. For women, you were either a whore, a spinster, or a good wife. If Esther hadn't finally picked a caste, she might have been successful in killing her self or she would have ended up in an asylum for the rest of her life, which I don't totally agree with. Actually, the book doesn't say anything about a husband,or at least I don't think it does, so Esther could have just gotten pregnant and had a baby but I doubt it.