Reading Response Week 5

This is in response to “The Pain of Pink Evenings” by Rosemary Moore. The first time I read the play I was only focused on the actually words used. I scanned for Latinate and Germanic words, odd use of abstracts and other huge concepts. The second time however I began to focus on the details of the work. One particular moment that stood out for me is found on page 153: “I flipped through all the memories. It’s not too hard because we, my side of the family, do live in the past”.  This simple line speaks volumes to the personality of the narrator. From this we see why it is so difficult to heal from the death of her husband. The story continues and shows what this statement describes, by showing the father recounting a tale of his own. When reading I assumed he was talking about meeting his wife for the first time, but this may just be gracious reading. This also was the first time I truly took notice of the use of an interrupter in a story. Upon reading this I looked back at some of the novels that I have read in the past and realized that I had run into them before, however I had not taken notice of their true purpose.