Yet Another Woman
The story that we read for today, "Sexy", very strongly resembles Lorrie Moore's short story, "How to be An Other Woman." The main characters in both, Miranda and Charlene respectively, follow very similar plot arcs. They're both young, whether out of college recently enough for a Phi Beta Kappa key to still have a lot of significance to them, or whether they're specifically mentioned to b 22, and meet a mysterious man that they decide to go out with, finding out early on that the man is married. They continue to go out with the man to various nice places, until they end up back at their apartment to sleep with him. The man starts out extremely romantic and close to them, and both main characters start to take on the persona of being a mistress. Eventually, Miranda and Charlene, for varying reasons, start to drift apart from the men that they were with, ending the affairs as quickly as they started. They follow a very similar plot arc, but are they the...