We've been discussing comparisons in class between words and fruit and what their different meanings may be in the story. We talked about how either one may relate to the woman's relationship. What I didn't hear mentioned was what if combined they're a metaphor for the woman's relationship? I think of it this way the man spoke WORDS of marriage and hope for a long relationship what the woman pictured was the FRUIT of those words and what that relationship would give her. In the end the fruit rotted words were broken thrown away. Seems alot like the relationship to me broken and tossed away.
I wonder if maybe this wasn't a mirage. There seems to be something alittle off about the whole fruit and word stand. It seems to appear almost out of nowhere. The woman has a weird face according to the description. The fruit rotting so quickly. What if this was all a mirage in the desert that she was having? What if the "NUT" picture was actually a representation of the main character and what was happening? Maybe she was going nuts.
Thomas Moss (post 10)
Very interesting observations, though your paragraphs seem to contradict one another. Based on what you say in your first paragraph it seems perfectly logical, not "nutty," that a woman who was fed empty words by her boyfriend would find a stand where words themselves were made of the objects they referenced. Based on the fact that Bender works with magical realism it seems as though her stories are more complicated than characters simply being insane, though this is, of course, up for debate.
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