2017年3月22日水曜日

Ladies’ Lunch by Lore Segal

I identified myself with the protagonist Lotte, an 82-year old woman who is progressing to dementia. She gets angry about whatever her caregiver does and tells her son Sam that she (Lotte) has died.

The plot is simple: since Lotte cannot live alone, she was taken to a country town bedsitter from her home, Manhattan. She longs to go back to the apartment in Manhattan, and her four friends, all about the same age with Lotte want to visit Lotte. But unfortunately they themselves are dependent and have no means to visit Lotte. Gradually, communication between Lotte and them grows apart from each other because of their old age.

This is a sad story, but it reveals the inevitable situation old people face sooner or later.

It is amazing that the writer wrote this short story at the age of 90 (she was born in 1928).

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