Blog #2 Michelle Smart

For this blog out I am going to use the story "Pagan Night" by Kate Braverman.

This short story is about a couple who is very lost in the world. The male, Dalton, does not see himself as being lost but as a musician doing everything he wants to do. There are a lot of gaps to fill in as the reader on the subject of Dalton. He is a very thinly drawn character so as the reader I came to the conclusion that he is happy with his existence except for the baby that Sunny has created. Time and time again Dalton asks Sunny what it is that she is thinking. This makes me feel as the reader that he does worry about her to some degree but not enough to ask her again after she tells him that she is thinking about nothing. Sunny is the main character in the story. Her life is very rocky and she thinks more about the past than what she is going to do in the future. She does not seem set on what her future holds. She can not even give her baby a proper name because she does not think she is going to keep him. There is a lot of inner conflict within Sunny about the baby. She wants to just leave him somewhere or even drop him into the lions cage at the zoo, but does not want to take the blame for anything happening to him. This is very disturbing to me as a reader. I do not fell any sympathy for Sunny or Dalton. I feel for the baby that has no name. Sunny has done this to herself and Dalton does not care what happens to him so he warrants no sympathy.