Dysfunctional Relation Of A Defeatist Mind
STUDENT NUMBER: 201259165
NAME: TAHRIN MARUF
COURSE NAME: ENGLISH 1080
DATE OF SUBMISSION: 3/22/2013
WORD COUNT: 1024 WORDS
Dysfunctional Relation of a Defeatist Mind
“An Important Day in the Life of Victoria G. Euclid” is a story about a dysfunctional relation between John (the narrator) and his girlfriend, Victoria Gaylene Euclid. Lawrence Mathews portrays John as a defeatist and ensures the reader hates him and sides instead with Victoria, despite of John’s internal witticisms and flights of fancy. An awkwardness and urgency comes between the couple when Victoria sees an obese man at a pharmacy and pokes him in the stomach and taunts him to do something about it, with an ulterior innuendo pointed towards John, who at the moment …show more content…
He is too relax and fails to take anything seriously. In the very first page it can be observed when Victoria goes and pokes the obese man and says something unpleasant, John is too reluctant to see the depth of her reactions and ulterior implication of it. Rather, he chuckles and takes it easy, even though from the next few lines, it is evident that it’s not the first time Victoria outburst.
“Nobody’s looking at me, so I retrieve Vicky’s feminine hygiene product and get in line at the cash. I know she’ll thank me for it later…….Christmas by Ross Reid, MP”(51). The above mentions lines show how John is busy giving too much credit to him rather than handling the situation when Victoria lost her patience and poked that man. He prefers to avoid the scene completely and hopes everything turns fine.
John’s careless nature is also evident from the last paragraph of page 56 “In the car on the way home I think of a really good WKRP in Cincinnati trivia question……….She’s not just into sitcoms, especially the ones I happen to see bits of in re-runs late at night working on eco-fascism” (56). Even though John knows something is wrong with Victoria, he is too busy with his own futile thoughts rather than trying to discover the pain and distress which she is going through. The thoughts itself shows how little dedication and belief he has towards his manuscript and how he indulges himself …show more content…
She knows that if she asks how these topics are relevant to eco-fascism I will have an answer” (54). In the above mentioned four paragraphs, it’s clear that Victoria really doesn’t count the writing of a manuscript as a job and she’s certain that it won’t yield any fruit. John’s negligence and laziness is apparent and he’s never short of excuses to prove how he’s deprived of job or appreciation. He even somehow makes a connection of how watching sitcoms help his research. It is understandable from John’s narration that Victoria tried to convince John for more than one occasion to try for a job, yet no indication of John’s activeness in the matter can be
NAME: TAHRIN MARUF
COURSE NAME: ENGLISH 1080
DATE OF SUBMISSION: 3/22/2013
WORD COUNT: 1024 WORDS
Dysfunctional Relation of a Defeatist Mind
“An Important Day in the Life of Victoria G. Euclid” is a story about a dysfunctional relation between John (the narrator) and his girlfriend, Victoria Gaylene Euclid. Lawrence Mathews portrays John as a defeatist and ensures the reader hates him and sides instead with Victoria, despite of John’s internal witticisms and flights of fancy. An awkwardness and urgency comes between the couple when Victoria sees an obese man at a pharmacy and pokes him in the stomach and taunts him to do something about it, with an ulterior innuendo pointed towards John, who at the moment …show more content…
He is too relax and fails to take anything seriously. In the very first page it can be observed when Victoria goes and pokes the obese man and says something unpleasant, John is too reluctant to see the depth of her reactions and ulterior implication of it. Rather, he chuckles and takes it easy, even though from the next few lines, it is evident that it’s not the first time Victoria outburst.
“Nobody’s looking at me, so I retrieve Vicky’s feminine hygiene product and get in line at the cash. I know she’ll thank me for it later…….Christmas by Ross Reid, MP”(51). The above mentions lines show how John is busy giving too much credit to him rather than handling the situation when Victoria lost her patience and poked that man. He prefers to avoid the scene completely and hopes everything turns fine.
John’s careless nature is also evident from the last paragraph of page 56 “In the car on the way home I think of a really good WKRP in Cincinnati trivia question……….She’s not just into sitcoms, especially the ones I happen to see bits of in re-runs late at night working on eco-fascism” (56). Even though John knows something is wrong with Victoria, he is too busy with his own futile thoughts rather than trying to discover the pain and distress which she is going through. The thoughts itself shows how little dedication and belief he has towards his manuscript and how he indulges himself …show more content…
She knows that if she asks how these topics are relevant to eco-fascism I will have an answer” (54). In the above mentioned four paragraphs, it’s clear that Victoria really doesn’t count the writing of a manuscript as a job and she’s certain that it won’t yield any fruit. John’s negligence and laziness is apparent and he’s never short of excuses to prove how he’s deprived of job or appreciation. He even somehow makes a connection of how watching sitcoms help his research. It is understandable from John’s narration that Victoria tried to convince John for more than one occasion to try for a job, yet no indication of John’s activeness in the matter can be