Sunday, November 25, 2012
Crummy Eyes
I'm a little confused on the severity of Oskar's grandmother's eyesight. She must be able to see to a certain extent, since she could read the pages from her husband's books. But at the same time, she wasn't able to recognize that when she was typing out her life story, she was really typing nothing at all. Did her eyesight truly get that much worse, to the point that she was basically blind? Or was she able to see that the pages of her story were blank all along? I know this was addressed on p. 124, but I still haven't decided for myself what I think. When Oskar's grandfather is narrating I imagine her being blind, but when Oskar is narrating I don't imagine that at all. It's confusing...what do you guys think?
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I think that she might have purposefully not written anything to test her husband. I know this may seem a little far fetched, but I think that she loved him a lot more than he loved her and she was beginning to realize that. I do think that she has difficulty seeing but not to the extent that she didn't realize she was typing blank pages. I think that the fact that she was thinking about her life provided the same therapy that actually typing it would have provided and that the blank pages were a test to see how her husband reacted.
ReplyDeleteI think she allowed her husband to believe she was blind because she wanted to feel special and cared for.On page 176 Oskar's Grandma said, "I told him my eyes were crummy, because i wanted him to pay attention to me."
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Amber. I think that their marriage was failing, and it was one of her many skewed attempts (ie: the Nothing vs. Something areas) to save it. She thought that maybe if he felt bad for her, he wouldn't leave her. At first, I thought that she got pregnant for the same reason, but later she says that she was trying to fill a hole inside of her.
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