Thursday, June 25, 2009
The Best Of Betty: How You Need To Learn To Laugh At Yourself
One of the short stories we read, "The Best Of Betty," consisted of letters to an advice column; the titular Betty responding in increasingly snarky ways. By the end of the story, she is outright telling her readers that their life sucks. This is what I really liked about this story, laughing at someone elses misfortune is fun. Sometimes the stupidity of the world just makes you want to vent. However, it can be quite useful to laugh at yourself. Nobody is perfect, not even yourself, and realizing this and learning to make fun of your own problems can make a bad day go by faster. Life can be furstrating. Sometimes a quick jab at someone, even yourself, can liven things up.
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I also liked this short story. I thought she was a little rude on some of them, but they were continuously writing into her so they were kind of setting themselves up. She did however at the end change into a little bit more of an open person.
ReplyDeleteMichael, The Best of Betty was probably one of my 3 favorites that we read. I especially liked watching her character develop. Hey, we learned in the mini-book club that some of those letters (First Person Singular) were to herself. Think about it.
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