Confining Diseases
... beautiful she is unnatural; her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity, for none of her features exhibit any of those touching imperfections that reconcile us to the imperfections of the human conditions. Her beauty is a symptom of her disorder, of her soullessness.” In the second story “Starved out” by Cynthia Fox, the two main character Jayme and Julie Porter are sisters who are bulimic women who suffer from anorexia. Jayme “weighs eighty one pounds. She has trouble finding a job; some employers think she has AIDS. She has a handicapped-parking permit ( Her ravaged heart makes it difficult to walk), yet the parking space she uses most is at the gym where she works out obsessively.” Through out the story she is in a constant battle with this problem and it causes her to become severely isolated and depressed. She takes Prozac (a prescription drug used to treat depression) but it does not do much good; a person can only be happy for so long. Unfortunately Jayme has not realized this but her sister due to economic and bureaucratic errors was allowed to stay on treatment even when raising a thirty five thousand dollar balance. Within these two stories all three women are plagued with urges that they can not control. In the story by Angela Carter the women lusts for blood and the only way to quench her thirst is eating rabbits. She wants more from life like love and companionship. In the same sense the two girls Julie and Jayme both struggle against an urge stronger than their own will power, and also want more from life....