“And we will meet them. Everybody. We will just walk up to people and know them right away. We will be walking down a dark road and see a lighted house and knock on the door and strangers will rush to meet us and say: come in! come in! We will know decorated aviators and New York people and movie stars. We will have thousands of friends, thousands and thousands and thousands of friends. We will belong to so many clubs that we can’t even keep track of all of them. We will be members of the whole world.” (small book-112)
In this sudden outburst, F. Jasmine is engrossed by a stream of hysterical thoughts and storms around the kitchen table while clutching a knife. Driven by emotion, she reveals to us what she believes to be her ideal world. She concludes that this future world will with certainty arise after the wedding.
Caught between a child and an adult, F. Jasmine is struggling to find an identity in her small hometown. She feels isolated and excluded from the community and gives excuse for her seclusion as the fault of the town. The wedding represents her delusional vision that once she joins the married couple, her life will finally have purpose and significance as a member of society. Pre-wedding, she cannot relate to anyone and struggles to find a connection with her peers. Once she creates this imagined transition, it becomes her sanctuary and escape from this awkward, unexplainable stage of her life.
Q: If the wedding was never a part of her life do you think that Frankie would have found a different way to cope with her isolation?
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