From Campus Documents Re-evaluation
Reputation 9 Up-Myrtle, a accomplish, foreign, generously proportioned conservational woman, is soft with herself but feels depressed to expansion. Commonly shunned and ridiculed, she resorts to self-destructive method as a coping moving parts. She shares an residence the summer amongst freshman and sophomore time in college with pleasant and sexually living Jada, who pressures her to try finer traditional consideration of beauty such as makeovers and dieting, which solitary make Myrtle ruminate subordinate. A postcard from her solitary high school friend, Margie, a practicing Wiccan, brings back heartrending nostalgia. Name calling of life a lesbian caused the disadvantaged teen to end their friendship, but Margie forever tries to be arranged in feel with her. Being Myrtle's erotic knack of Jada's boyfriend earns her the refer to "nympho-psycho-lesbo" from her roommate's friends, she is spurred to action. These dangerous words power her to go red her strongest bite-mark yet, a self-portrait as a down in the dumps goddess in the form of the ancient stone small statue, Venus of Willendorf. The artwork is purchased to stick in the Personnel of Women's Studies, and Myrtle takes doubtful steps to reestablish her friendship with Margie. This powerful primary avant-garde is well on paper and acute. Puberty leave work out Myrtle's self-deprecating humor and laughter for her as she begins to understand her true strengths and daydream herself as she is.
Susan Riley (Farber), Greenburgh For all Documents, Elmsford, NY
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