storytelling

Storytelling is the only way to relay something that has already occurred. Books, tv shows, movies, even conversation- it’s all stories. A drawing is a story. This is what makes the woman’s quote in the piece so significant. It is extremely difficult to interpret. “I could tell you stories”, as we talked about in class, can mean one- or more- of many different things. The two that jumped out at me the most, though, were the “unable to give justice to reality”, and the idea that she could have been a liar. These are completely opposite interpretations in a way, but both perfectly realistic. However, what really strikes me is the idea that she could be trying to explain her real past with a fabricated story- such as Fitzgerald did with The Great Gatsby. The woman, who never starts her story, and who decides that she isn’t going to tell it, is different from Fitzgerald in the sense that she chooses not to disclose the information that she obviously has the choice to disclose. The idea that the story wouldn’t give real life justice applies, too, because the interaction between she and her husband is something that the narrator has never seen before, and it is reason to believe that there could have been a wonderful story behind it that no one is articulate enough to tell. Often times this is the reason why facts and stories can get distorted so much.