This excerpt is very different from what I’ve read before. What struck me most on the story were the last few lines. It made me want to know how this story ends. Why did the man punch the doctor’s nose? Actually, the doctor helped them and explained to them how to have sex. So why is the man that mad with the doctor?
Actually, there are more incidents in the story that are odd. Another thing was the sequence of Saint Anthony. I had to look up who this saint was. I found that he helps people against infectious diseases especially herpes. So does the woman suffer from an infectious sexually disease? If so, why doesn’t she know who St. Anthony is? And if not, why would she wear this necklace of this saint? Besides, I’m wondering why the doctor has no practice anymore? Is it because of the rubber dolls since he narrator tells that he had to “keep (them) locked up in separate cabinets to avoid a scandal”?
So what wants the author us to tell? I think there is some critique in this excerpt. I mean the narrator calls the newly-weds a „couple of young kids”. They have been married for one year and she is still virgin, moreover, both are thinking they have had sex without even knowing what sex is. So I think society has not prepared them for their adult life and marriage, respectively. Maybe that’s the point of this story.
However, I would like to know how this story ends and will probably read the full version of Catch-22.
Actually, there are more incidents in the story that are odd. Another thing was the sequence of Saint Anthony. I had to look up who this saint was. I found that he helps people against infectious diseases especially herpes. So does the woman suffer from an infectious sexually disease? If so, why doesn’t she know who St. Anthony is? And if not, why would she wear this necklace of this saint? Besides, I’m wondering why the doctor has no practice anymore? Is it because of the rubber dolls since he narrator tells that he had to “keep (them) locked up in separate cabinets to avoid a scandal”?
So what wants the author us to tell? I think there is some critique in this excerpt. I mean the narrator calls the newly-weds a „couple of young kids”. They have been married for one year and she is still virgin, moreover, both are thinking they have had sex without even knowing what sex is. So I think society has not prepared them for their adult life and marriage, respectively. Maybe that’s the point of this story.
However, I would like to know how this story ends and will probably read the full version of Catch-22.
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