{"id":1278,"date":"2018-10-03T11:46:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T15:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2018-10-03T11:46:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T15:46:44","slug":"infidelity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2018\/10\/03\/infidelity\/","title":{"rendered":"Infidelity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201c\u2019We could decide in three months. That would be fairer wouldn\u2019t it?\u00a0<\/em>To Elgin, to you?\u2019\u00a0<\/em>
\n\u2018What about you?\u2019\u00a0<\/em>
\nI shrugged. \u2018I\u2019ve done with Jaqueline. I\u2019m here for you if you want me.\u2019\u00a0<\/em>
\nShe said, \u2018I want to offer you more than infidelity.\u201d (Winterson 84)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This passage stood out to me because it revolves around the active decision to continue\u00a0infidelity. The first sentence indicates premeditation and affirmation that went into their affair. Louise is deciding when to leave her husband, Elgin, so that she can continue her affair with the narrator. Additionally, that process of decision making affirms the notion that Louise wants\u00a0(more or less)\u00a0to be with the narrator that she is willing to leave her husband. From my knowledge, most affairs do not end up with the cheater and the wife\/husband\/partner getting together. Furthermore, the sentence \u201cthat would be fairer, wouldn\u2019t it?\u201d is ironic because she is talking about being \u201cfair\u201d while cheating and while still being with her husband rather than leaving him as soon as she started the affair. Continuing the affair behind Elgin\u2019s back for three months is\u00a0beyond asking what is fair.<\/p>\n

Moreover, Louise\u2019s statement of \u201cI want to offer you more than infidelity\u201d depicts that she\u00a0feels she\u00a0may be at fault for the affair. While,\u00a0yes\u00a0she is at some fault, I believe the narrator is more at fault for continuing the\u00a0affair knowing that Louise was married. Written on the Body is all about infidelity and is told from the perspective of a cheater rather than of the cheated on. This perspective is important because there are always two sides to a story and when it comes to affairs, we only ever hear the side of the cheated on and not the thought process or story of the cheater.<\/p>\n

In relation to the\u00a0book as a whole, this\u00a0passage is about cheating and\u00a0cheating is a concept that has no sexuality or gender. Reading Written on the Body from a character whose gender is unknown allows readers to read without prejudice. Reading from the perspective of the cheater not only strays away from the norm of only hearing from the cheated on, it also offers an explanation as to why they decided to cheat and what made them decide to continue (or not continue) the affair. I, personally, do not condone cheating and am not trying to justify cheating, but\u00a0I believe Written on the Body offers a perspective,\u00a0explanation,\u00a0and some sort of closure as to why people make the decisions they make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201c\u2019We could decide in three months. That would be fairer wouldn\u2019t it?\u00a0To Elgin, to you?\u2019\u00a0 \u2018What about you?\u2019\u00a0 I shrugged. \u2018I\u2019ve done with Jaqueline. I\u2019m here for you if you want me.\u2019\u00a0 She said, \u2018I want to offer you more than infidelity.\u201d (Winterson 84)\u00a0 This passage stood out to me because it revolves around the … Continue reading Infidelity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}