In ZZ Packer's short story "Geese" I was struck by the last paragraph in the story. Throughout the story you wonder why Dina is allowing herself to stay in this situation. Why she doesn't try harder to get a job or go home. By the end of the story Dina is living with four other jobless foreigners and they are eating what seems like one small "meal" a week. When it comes down to starving she decides to prostitute herself. After this is done she is on the train home and remembers reading a book about Japanese suicide kamikazes. It is at this point that life makes a little more sense to Dina. She always thought that she would choose a different ending if she were one of these bombers but now she knows this isn't the case. She did exact;y what they did, knowing that the ending only had one outcome. I thought this was a sad story.
Posted by: Krista Behrends
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