Comments on: Dark in the Chrysalis — Chapter 2

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:03:10 +0000

She’s obviously needed here. Why would she want to leave?

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:59:18 +0000

Indeed! That’s the first thing I thought of when I read that she “could see only the hideous, battleship gray that someone had painted the walls and woodwork”!!

By: E. Wallace

E. Wallace — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:39:05 +0000

Heh, as a government cubicle farm dweller, I guess I should have more sympathy for those laboring in drab workspaces

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:51:11 +0000

I think she’s not describing squalor, but rather the gloomy unattractiveness of an ugly room. I know I’ve had a hard time adapting to the soul-sucking grayness of the fixtures and walls in the place where I’m working these days — I wouldn’t call it “wretchedness,” but the absence of color and beauty can affect your mood and be hard to live with, don’t you think?

By: E. Wallace

E. Wallace — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:34:53 +0000

I feel like I’m missing some cultural context clues… furniture that’s not au courant = “wretchedness” that she can’t bear to live with for one more day??