Wednesday, 9/26

I liked very much the way Ron tells the story. He tells it so detailed, including things that even seem unnecessary and excessive, and drives the story real life-like. Ron also goes on and on about how fabulous he is and how ugly Sarah is, and this is emphasized throughout the story. Ron doesn't miss a moment to catch Sarah's ugliness, like when they discovered the damage on the car, or when she was trying to cross her legs and failed (this was a good one). He does this as if he wants to create some sort of "class" that would separate him from her. He describes her homeliness and ugliness to the point where it gets so cruel, and yet he let her keep talking to him, just out of curiosity, as if he is playing around with a puppy. Like he says in the story, Sarah, or having sex with Sarah, is an obssession, not a desire. Or maybe, he just couldn't refuse her genuineness or humanness and doesn't even realize.
The first Marxist remark I thought I saw was when Sarah said "You and me, we're real different." I was asking myself, does she mean this the way Ron would understand, the charming and the ugly? The interesting thing about this was that, it was only Sarah who was thinking this way, even though Ron surely thought that Sarah is a lot less than he deserves, I don't think Ron was drawing a thick and visible line between him and her. But it was a line that was clearly visible to Sarah.
The last scene is when they break up, and I believe it was right after Ron was forced to go to a party with Sarah. Probably he decided to leave her after seeing how shallow she can be when she gets drunk. Then he comes out and says Sarah isn't really dead. He had to think she's dead so that he can get the memories back, and also to realize that he "allegedly" loved her, which I doubt. He buried his face in his hands when she left his apartment because he felt terribly bad and sympathetic given her unfavorable situation. Now that he knows she went back to her ex-husband whom he hates himself, he feels bad even worse. Ron is a serious asshole.