This is an extremely depressing story and I’m not quite sure if I understand it completely. It seems like she just started a bunch of things that would make interesting stories, ties everything together at the end, but it left me wanting more. I don’t understand why the dialogue between the mother and daughter in this story sounds like a couple of 3 year-olds talking when the girl is 16 and the mom is presumably much older. I don’t understand how you could go 25 years without remembering as extreme as this and then recall it so easily when someone asks you about your worst experience in life. I especially didn’t like the way she ended the story because she basically made me feel like her mom was crazy, and in turn, she was crazy and that’s why the story is a bit off.
She realizes there might have been a point in her life when she would rather be dead than live with her mother, and furthermore, she’s not sure whether her mom would have killed her or not. Then you have to wonder what kind of a mother would go so far as to threaten their child with a meat clever. The story ends with the narrator asking her mother whether she meant to kill her that day and her mother responds that she has no idea of the incident, claiming she had always been a good child. This response seems to please her, or at least that’s what I inferred from the last sentence in her paper.
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