Monday, November 12, 2012

Pg. 500 A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant, Pg. 504 Writing #1


My initial reaction of the waitress's expression to me was a working girl that isn't over-complacent about her job. I didn't see her as neither happy, relaxed, or stressed. I just viewed her as a worker who knows her duties, and is willing to make her superiors life's easy by doing them. After reading the poem my judgment of the waitress hasn't changed at all. Every word said about her in the poem was my exact interpretation of how I thought she'd be.

The American Dream's Structure

The structure of the essay reminded me of the expert from More I Remember More by Joe Brainard. Instead of starting the paragraphs with "I remember" most of The American Dream paragraphs started with the word "You" in bold text. The major resemblance between the two text was how both managed to tell a story without given the main characters these stories names. Both essays also tell a story of a person’s history. The differences are that one is in first person (More I Remember), while the other one is not (The American Dream).