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Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape, To My Dear And Loving Husband

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The stories and poem that I will be talking about in my essay are “Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape”, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, and “To My Dear and Loving Husband”. Intellectual movements are being used in each short story, which I will be discussing throughout my essay. In the beginning of “Love and Other Catastrophes”, the author starts out as a loner, desperately wanting a relationship with a significant other. For example, “Looking for Love (Lou Reed)” (Brown 127). By putting that song, she meant that she is trying to find somebody to love. She then finds a special person to spend her life with and the dating process begins. As the days go by, they get to know each other very well like every other couple and end up falling in love. Until one day, …show more content…

The authors heart is broken so she is describing her feelings when she listed the songs, “My Achy Breaky Heart (Billy Ray Cyrus)”, “Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley)”, and “Stop, In the Name of Love ( The Supremes)”. These songs are about someone breaking their hearts and it hurting so bad. It’s like she is going through a depression but later on in the short story, she recovers from a broken heart. After everything, the author then becomes lonely and the whole process starts over again. Brown is using a different way to demonstrate how music can show a person’s true feelings. In other words, mix tapes are ways of how someone can reveal their feelings without actually describing themselves directly, but through the music. The style of this short story is very unique, rather than having an intro, body, conclusion, she is choosing to refer to a list of song titles and to keep it in chronological order. The literature in “Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix

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