Fat Girl

Summary



This story was about a girl who is fat. She is told by her mother that she shouldn't be fat and that boys don't like fat girls. When she goes to college she finds a friend who later becomes her roommate and encourages her to loose weight. She goes through the process of loosing weight and is miserable. She meets a man who works for her father and marries him and they have a child. During the pregnancy she gains weight again and slips into her old habits of hiding candy and eating what her husband eats which she never used to do. After the pregnancy her eating habits continue and her husband argues with her about her weight. The story ends with her eating one of her hidden candy bars in front of her husband.



Interpretation



This story seemed to me to be about the struggle with addiction as well as a struggle with being true to yourself. The girl was not happy when she was skinny and didn't enjoy the person she had become. I think that it is very important that a person be comfortable with who she is and not go to great lengths to hide features that define her as a person. I also think that it was about a struggle with addiction because she was hiding her candy bars and eating very little in public but more in private. She didn't seem to be in control of her eating habits which seemed to stem from her mother's comments. The story seemed to me to be about many things that help define a person psychologically and physically.

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