era of social awareness and change. Many people have been slowly accepting the idea of the reclamation of a woman’s body, possibly due to the wide representation in contemporary media. However, this still seems like a radical idea to others. Susan Minot’s “Lust” describes a time when society was near the beginning of sexual liberation. On one spectrum, there is the narrator- a teenage girl attending boarding school, exploring her sexuality by having all of these experiences with different boys. On
refuses to acknowledge it and replaces the concept with the idea of lust by maintaining only fleeting sexual encounters. The other takes an extreme route of obsession that underlines every part of her everyday life. While these women approach the same topic in contrasting ways, there is a stronger common ground between them. These women let their approaches to love depreciate their self-image and self-worth. Susan Minot’s “Lust” and Maggie Mitchel’s “It Would Be Different If”, illustrate the identity
The short story “Lust” by Susan Minot details the life of a high school girl who has succumbed to the pressure of her surroundings. The pressure of sex by her peers and all of the boys she came across led to the multiple sexual encounters that make up this story. This realistic view on the teenagers of the early 1970’s shows the ups and downs of sexual movement of the 1960’s. In “Lust”, Susan Minot shows the reality of a teenage girl’s life throughout her high school years and the problems her actions
The Relationships Of Delivering And Receiving The work The Lust by Susan Minot resembles to the reader field notes from the inner sexual life of young woman, or, to be more precise, an adult teenager. The author pursuits a goal not only to transcribe her experience, these notes are more similar to the epistolary genre 's memoirs. In the textual sketches Susan Minot provides a reader with the analysis of the woman role in the relationship as a concept along with her representation in the societal
awakening when an unwanted visitor appears at her doorstep. The stories, "Lust" by Susan Minot, "ID" by Joyce Carol Oates, and "Where are you going, Where have you been?" also by, Joyce Carol Oates, describe the female coming of age. The female sexuality of these three young girls is that they didn’t understand their own reality, but yet wanted independence. The authors get across the message by using vivid symbols. “Lust,” describes a young teenage girl who has mischievous meetings with many boys