Friday, March 2, 2012
Blog Post #3
In the story, "The Room," I believe that Katherine is attempting to repress the incident that occurred nine years ago. When she found out that her husband not only cheated on her but might have killed a woman, Katherine could no longer look at her husband the same way. Even though she still loved him, she saw her husband as a shadow of the man she once knew. Once the trial for the murder was over, Katherine never spoke about the affair to her husband again and made it seem like it never happened. She eventually had her own affair to try and feel loved and wanted by someone again, however, it brought back all of the repressed memories about the incident. Even though Katherine never wanted to talk about the life changing event, she ended up telling a complete stranger. Numerous times she tells the man that she doesn't want to tell the story but she tells him anyway because the repressed memory is always on her mind no matter how hard she tries to forget about it.
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I agree with what you said about Katherine trying to repress her memories of the affair. She was living in the dark and hiding her feelings from her husband and they ended up coming out to a total stranger because eps he couldn't talk to her husband about that. Communication is key in a relationship and without that and with that whole cheating on her thing, she was right to leave him, even if it was nine years later. Repressing her memories so much ended up leading to everything reminding her of his affair and her feelings finally came out.
ReplyDeleteI came to the same conclusion about the affair bringing the repressed memories to the surface. I also seem to think that the relationship is what re-represses these memories of Katherine. I don't know, maybe I am not looking far enough into the text, but the entire opression and repression of memories stems from the relationship with the stranger in this story.
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