Sarah Cole: A type of love story
...p and all is bliss until Sarah confronts her so called beau with his reluctance to become a part of her life; to meet her family or even be seen in public with her. Though she is extraordinarily unattractive, living hand-to-mouth, and not exceptionally bright, Sarah has an essential understanding of right and wrong and she is willing to speak up for herself. In spite of his later acknowledged feelings for her, his reaction to her challenge is shockingly malicious. The story ends with the reader's realization that Sarah is not deceased, as the narrator has related; he simply let her drop from his life as completely as though she really had died. . Through the voice of Ron, Banks portrays the ugly inner existence of an outwardly attractive person. The amalgamation of a primitive emotional force and the po...