Monday, April 2, 2012
The Street Pt. I- Minori Wisti
The way this book opens up is interesting, in the author describing the wind. I thought that maybe the wind was set up to be like a metaphorical foreshadowing of what Lutie (and probably many others) would have to face. The wind is described as violent; "It did everything it could to discourage the people walking along the street." As the first three chapters go on Lutie's situation is revealed and it seems almost helpless, impossible to succeed with the conditions she's been given. The wind to me was like everything that was working against Lutie- poverty, lack of education and resources, discrimination, bills to pay, no one to watch Bub while she's working....At the end of the chapter the wind returns and Lutie "flung herself into the wind, welcoming its attack, aware as she walked along that the woman's hard flat eyes were measuring her progress up the street."
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I love your interpretation of the wind being a foreshadowing of the events that Lutie is to face. I also found it to be a striking way to begin the story and many moments of description of this wind were personified in terms such as its "violent assault", how it was "fingering its way along the curb" and how "it did everything it could to discourage the people". These descriptions make the wind seem as if it were a person intent in casting gloom upon those it encountered. This could be interpreted into how the negro woman was treated by society, constantly being knocked down in an assault on her character.
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