Class Discussion 2

The discussion we had Friday was based on the handout from “Red Sky in the Morning”. We talked about the phrase “I could tell you stories” and how we interpret it. Some of our interpretations included: Lying (using it as a filler), trauma, or the person is just a gossiper. People usually use this phrase if they have had many events happen to them on a certain subject. In the hand out we saw this used when the woman who got on the bus told the narrator she could tell her stories about how her husband had been mistake for her son. We then moved on to the quote from the hand out “A story, we sense, is the only possible habitation for the burden or our witnessing”. Stories are the ways of communicating the important times in our lives. It is “our responsibility to do this. You can see this in Gatsby by comparing Nick as the person who is responsible for telling the story of Gatsby’s life.