#650 Bobcat- Rebecca Lee
The narrator is a woman, late in pregnancy. Her and her husband are having a dinner party. She is surrounded by people in the writing world, authors and literary agents. She feels both inadequate and superior to her guests, judging them at times harshly. She knows that the husband of one the couples invited has been having an affair with her colleague.
An author at the party has written a recent acclaimed memoir accounting her harrowing experience of losing her arm to a bobcat while being stuck in the mountains. She wonders if the story is made up and later hears the author say that the bobcat is both real and a metaphor. The bobcat is the things we fear ready to pull us apart when we are at our weakest. It is just like the story about woman creating civilization to create safety around themselves after pregnancy, again at their most vulnerable.
This dinner party is that type of nesting or civilization building for the narrator. But she spends too much time worrying about her guests and their problems, not seeing the bobcat lurking in her shadows waiting to attack her at her most vulnerable moment.
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