Both of my significant passages this week are from the piece“Marriage” by Gregory Corso. I found this piece very odd but extremely amusing at the same time. The first passage of significance I chose were the lines, “should I sit knees together on their 3rd degree sofa and not ask Where’s the bathroom?” The second I passage I chose was in the closing of the piece, “And maybe there’s a girl now but she’s already married And I don’t like men and- but there’s got to be somebody!” Each of these passages were significant to me in different ways.
When I came across the first passage, I instantly thought of my ex-boyfriend Michael. Whenever he came over to my house, he was extremely nervous about talking to my parents. He never knew how to act in front of them. Most of the time he would shout out a quick “hey” from the other room and make a dash for the basement. For some reason the man in this piece reminded me of him. He’s unsure of how he should really act, he’s putting on some kind of act for the parents. He never really knows if there’s a time he can be completely honest and comfortable enough to basically say, “I really need to use your bathroom! Where is it?”
The second passage I wrote about wasn’t of personal significance to me, it just struck me as interesting. I feel as though throughout the whole piece he is kind of joking around with the whole marriage deal. When I read these few lines, I felt as though his true character came out. It’s not that he doesn’t believe in the whole marriage deal, he’s just scared of what’s out there or even worse what’s not out there. To me it seems like he’s using the joking method as a defense mechanism. What he really has to do is go out there and be active in his search for love.
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