Literature
Michelle_Michy
MARBLEWOMENWEB.docxhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/j84oqn0g273r1gq/MARBLE%20WOMAN.pdf?dl=0
In “Cold Dates,” is about a woman called Shari, she is tired from dates, tired of small talk and she is trying to become the woman she thinks men will want. Shari is dispirited from the number of dates she’s been on, 88 and counting, without finding someone.
This story is about a black single woman called Apple who wants to get married and have a family, but in the city where she lives there is a matchmaking system in which the father of the woman who wants to marry places a flag (in different colors indicating her age and wishes to marry), Apple does not want to use this method for various reasons. In the end, the desire for family overpowers her and she hangs the flag.
The story elicited feelings of sadness and helplessness for Apple, her strong desire to get married, her feelings of being unwanted by men implicit in the lines of the text and yet her stubborn refusal not to hang the flag. The text made me think about the situation of women in our current world who are currently in Apple's condition and don't even have a "flag".
