Page 83 Analysis

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Page 83 is one of the crucial pages that depicts the contrast between her honest desire and her attempt to meet the social expectation. The picture on the top of the page represent Forney in a depressive state. This can be analyzed from previous pages in chapter four, since she said negative comments such as “All I really wanted was to disappear.” (81) and “God I just feel so pathetic + awful.” (82) that resemble the depressive episode described in the DSM-IV. In addition to intertextual analysis, the texts in the cartoon like “gained weight, not training, exhausted” also resonate the depressive episode described in DSM-IV. In this depressed state, she said, “I dread going, but not going sounded even worse.” (83). Her comment on “I dread going”