#388 Dark Lady- Margaret Atwood
Jorrie and Tin are fraternal twins, and life partners. “The
truth is…the twins never loved anyone except each other.”
That have had a somewhat dis-functional life, dealt with
abuse and death. Tin is the level headed one, Jordie, the impetuous one. Tin is always there to try and save her from herself, but he’s not always able:
“it was his calling from childhood to defend her when
possible from her own impetuousness.
“Push and she pushes back. He hasn’t forgotten her childhood
tantrums and the fights she used to get into, flailing her long arms
ineffectually as the other children laughed and jeered her on. He’d watch,
almost in tears himself: he couldn’t extricate her, confined to the boy’s side
of the schoolyard as he was. So he avoids confrontation.”
Their lives connect with the previous two stories in this
collection. Jorrie likes attending funerals of people she knows, to kind of
dance on their graves. She attends the funeral of Gavin, the poet. She was the
Dark Lady in some of his works.
Notable Passage: “Money does talk, but it has a limited
vocabulary.”
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