This is a harrowing story Life - Size, told in the first person narrative, of an obsession with food and body image. ‘One day I will be thin enough’ says Josie, the 25 year old anorectic women who has been hospitalised for the life-threaten self starvation. ’Just the bones………the pure clear shape of me. ’ One day I will be pure consciousness’ The narration spins out in painful detail the pattern of compulsive behaviour which pervades Josie’s existence. Her pitifully barren emotional life is revealed as well.
How did it all begin? Flashbacks of significant events invade Josie’s attempts to stop thinking. A shy aqward adolescent, overly sensitive to casual comments about excess flesh, decides to diet. Josie stumbles non - communicatively through a teen - age sexual intention to a later affair with her married professor, retreating ever further from her bewildered family.
But why do events take such an extreme turn? The mystery of anorexia nervos
In this essay I am going to show how the style of the novel conveys the preoccupations of the main character - Josie.
From the quote you can see Josie is obsessed with food. She analyses everything from the chicken to the food touching on the plate. She uses a metaphor to unleash her dreadful thought - about contemplating eating a branch of broccoli. This quotation taken from the first page makes me think that she is clearly obsessed with food and that she does want to eat some however she cant do it. Her obsession is far too advanced.
This particular quote is about Josie’s relationships. She had just spend the night with her tutor. It wasn’t a relationship as such it was merely just sex. When he had left in the morning Josie began eating uncontrollably like she had never done before.
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