The Fat Girl, Andre Dubus

The Fat Girl, Andre DubusTo sw on the wholeow the early(a)s, first we have to accept ourselves and accept who we are The Fat Girl is a short story to the highest degree a girl that tries to fit in todays standards and satisfies her parents as well. The author , Andre Dubus , shows how stressful to fit in the society standards , individuals have the pressure of conforming to a superficial image. This idea is developed through the early years of Louise , her metric fish unit change and unexampled life , and back to the old habit.First of all, Andre Dubus, takes us into the life of a young girl whose pay back is convincing her that she lead perplex flesh out and how hard is to make fri oddments. We can see this later the mom tell her daughter , You must start watching what you eat, her mother would say. I can see you have my metabolism. As the mother doesnt expect that, she puts Louise onto a strict diet. In order not to displease her mother, only when noneffervescent sat isfy her hunger, Louise started eating food when no one was watching. spot her mother was strict and caring, on the other side her father was lovable and misguided. Louise didnt have a good deal of friends. Her two childhood friends, Joan and Marjorie were both repress solely they felt as a social outcast in other modal values. Louise only feels comfortable in the presence of others who were also hazardous and unhappy. Ironically Louise intentionally chooses friends who are not heavy because she worries about the way others will see her. I was always minuteking about what masses saw when they looked at me and didnt want them to see two fat girls. It appears that Louise finds her weight issues to be bigger than her friends insecurities. She chooses to exclude those who are heavy from her life epoch welcoming those with different negative issues. In addition to her self-image issues, Louise also doubts her big businessman to find happiness in an intimate relationship. Her mot her put in her head some negative perceptions such as In cinque years youll be in high school and if youre fat the boys use like you they wont ask you out . This quote shows the overall life of the people who dont meet todays standards. Louise continues down this negative road when she decides to go to an all-girl college so she can avoid rejection from guys. Up until this point her only contact with a boy was at a picnic with a drunken pamper .Once in college , Louise shows us how changing and losing weight makes a lot of difference in someones life. Louise continues her self-loathing into college where the only close friend she makes is this thin girl with emotional issues. In the story we can see a intemperate friendship between the two girls, which leads to the important point where Louise decides to go on a diet, and it is only because her best friend Carrie convinces her that she needs to become thin so that some boy will love her as Carrie does. Carrie pleads, I want yo u to be loved the way I love you. Louise, if I help you, really help you, will you go on a diet?. Although Carrie is trying to help her best friend, she is actually reinforcing Louises views of her own body. She starts losing fat and her mother starts threating her differently. She finds her way more beautiful and starts buying all kinds of throw .As Louise progresses with her new diet, she becomes more and more irritable and unhappy with life. In all her life she had neer been afflicted by ill temper and she looked upon it instantaneously as a demon which, along with hunger, was taking possession over her soul .With this quote the author wants to show us that Louise is being press into losing weight for strictly superficial reasons, and so she can get sure into society and fit todays standards. This can be further seen when Louise feels shame and distraction when she goes to Carries house for thanksgiving, all because she is aware Carries parents know she is dieting. Louise is uncomfortable and feels excluded in partaking of the legion(predicate) dishes the other thin people can comfortably enjoy.In the end , we cant forget our old habits and sometimes we should accept who we are and diaphragm the way we are. After college, the new thin Louise meets a young attorney named Richard, who finds her attractive and has no knowledge of her life before. Louise is sure he would never have looked at her if she had still been heavy. They get married and Louise becomes a housewife. season Louise struggles to keep herself thin, her husband can eat anything he wants and still bide fit. She makes him all kind of Italian food that she is unable to consume. It is ironic that she marries a person who has the metabolism of a pencil sharpener when Louise must watch every(prenominal) calorie she eats. The next five years shows a Louise who is thin with new friends, a loving husband, and an active lifestyle, which is by most accounts a thoroughgoing(a) life. In her fif th year of marriage, Louise becomes pregnant and her eating begin to become uncontrollable. The new changes in her body frighten her as Louise remarks that she is starting to run into weight but she told herself it was only the baby, and would leave with its birth. But at other times she knew quite clearly that she was losing her discipline she had fought so hard to come during her last year with Carrie. A baby is born, but Louise has now returned to her hard habits and though she cares for her child, she continues to alienate her husband. They fight at nearly every dinner party over her appetite and weight gain . Andre Dubus finishes his story with a strike Louise enjoying a candy bar and shocked to discover her husband Richard is still there.In conclusion, The short story The Fat Girl by Andre Dubus shows many another(prenominal) of the negative aspects associated with eating disorders, fat people, and the way society addresses them. Todays standards are besides high and peo ple who dont fit in them are getting rejected and they feel sad about their body. Sometime they try changing , but sometimes is better to be who you are and accept yourself.