Would You Rather?
What does the game "Would You Rather?" show about girls, especially the one girl who wants to play it? (Jennifer Guarino)
“Would You Rather” has a great impact on the book, I Am An Emotional Creature, as a whole. Just alone in these three monologues, poems, or short story (which ever you prefer) Ensler puts a lot of concept, emotion and responsibility into the two main characters. Thus, giving the book a firm foundation and creating more visible threads that are more comprehensive than any other short story in this book.
“Would You Rather” shows that some girls are naive on what is happing around them while, others eyes are so open and exceptive that the world becomes too much for them. This is most easily portrayed in Girl 2 voice. She is the character that is not willing to answer the question because she wants to void out all of the unnecessary things that challenges her in life.
“Cause I am sick of having to choose between two horrible impossible things.
Living with my mother or my father, being popular or smart, enjoying sex or being called a slut, making money or following my heart. I want different questions. I hate these choices. I hate my life.”
I love how after reading this whole book at the end Ensler creates so much passion and emotion into this character. This is the “a Ha” moment, when you finally figure out what was the sole purpose these three particular monologues.
The complexity comes in when you pay attention to the way Girl 1 voice indicated the questions. Almost as if she is immature in a sense or that through curiosity she experiences life.
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. It was just a game.”
“Are you crying?”
This shows that she didn’t understand the impact of what she was doing and why Girl 1 was so defensive about answering the questions. Through Ensler’s language throughout the three monologues you can get a since of maturity from beginning to the end. In the first monologue Girl 1 asks very minor questions but by the time you reach the third monologue you notice she is asking very sexual and mature questions. It makes you almost wonder if Girl 2 problems came mostly in her adolescent year’s, verses Girl 1 who I believe has minor problems and faces less mature situations than Girl 2 due to the fact that Ensler writes her language in a more curious and immature way/neglectiveto society type of way. But then Ensler flips this character and makes her understand at the end; which makes me wonder was the character only making it seems as if she was naïve or as if others were dealing with the same situations that she was going through. Almost like a sense of nurture through her peers.
Girl 2
“It’s just so hard sometimes. It’s just so hard and sad.”
Girl 1
“I know. It is. I hate it.
(They both snuggle and they both cry. Then after a while they start laughing and laughing)
The laughing gives a sense of relief between the two characters as well as companionship. I feel as though Ensler should have let these three story open and close the book because they spoke to me the most. This can be openly debated because each story or monologue in the book relates to different people. Therefore this particular piece could've ment more to me than others.
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