LUST

Lust

How are male and female roles defined?

In Lust it’s written in the author's perceptive of how interaction between her and different guys have gone. Each paragraph there is a little taste of each guy’s and what the writer thinks about them and time she spend with them. But we don’t really get to know her. Both the males and the writer seem to have the same role, both are mystery and only small parts show a glimpse of who they are. Even though this short story is about the writer, she seem to viewing it in an out of body way. Or she’s looking back on some of these memories and trying to figure out why.   

Even from the women’s perspective of tell the story, her role still feel secondary. At the end, the writer seem unsure about the relationships she’s had with these men and unsure of who she is as a person. All of the boys in the story don’t really have personality they seem like props that want to have sex then leave after, or are an asshole or the writer stops talking about them. The writer doesn’t give us the opinion of the men in this situation. The writer doesn’t really have a hard opinion on men. She just shares her experiences with different ones and leaves the decision of what to think of men to the reader.

Some of the paragraphs the writer see what men do to her like when she writes “I could do some things well. Some things I was good at, like math or painting or even sports, but the second a boy put his arm around me, I forgot about wanting to do anything else, which felt like a relief at first until it became like sinking into a muck”. I think it brings up the point of losing one's self in a relationship, in cases of both men and women you as a person become secondary. I think what says trying to she is that her role as a female and her self interests change when a man is in her life, how every short a period it is.