The story that Cannie tells on pages 52 through 60 about how she had come to write a column about weddings and their brides for a local newspaper helps give the reader a deeper understanding of Cannie’s longing to find answers about love and marriage.…
If I was in Cannie’s place, I would be furious at the fact that someone that I had a relationship with before wrote an article that was so humiliating. Bruce Guberman’s article “Loving a Larger Woman” reflects on sexual relationships with overweight woman, but his…
Jennifer Weiner’s Good in Bed both comments on real life struggles of the main character, Cannie, while ultimately providing a pleasant escape to readers. The novel is not “escapist” as a whole, as Cannie grapples with her weight and heavier life issues, but retains a…
Bruce’s article, which provides a personal account of his experience “loving a larger woman” presents a thoughtful appreciation of bigger women, but does so in a discourteous manner. It is because of this that I believe both Lily and Cannie are right. Lily, who relates to…
Team A reading questions. Responses of 250-300 words are due by 9PM on Monday 11/10 as an original post. Don’t forget a creative title for your post. 1. In her article about Jennifer Weiner’s novels, Laura Miller asks “Is [Weiner] providing her readers with a…
We began the class by talking about John’s post. In his blog post he discussed whether the main character in Good in Bed is likeable or not. He believes she is likable because she is different to how women are depicted today. She goes against…
“I sat, eased a few M&M’s into my mouth, and flipped to page 132, which turned out to be ‘Good in Bed,’ Moxie’s regular male-written feature designed to help the average reader understand what her boyfriend was up to… or wasn’t up to, as the…
“I sat, eased a few M&M’s into my mouth, and flipped to page 132, which turned out to be ‘Good in Bed,’ Moxie’s regular male-written feature designed to help the average reader understand what her boyfriend was up to… or wasn’t up to, as the…
“I thought sometimes that he liked to imagine himself as one of the lead characters in an early Springsteen song – some furious, passionate nineteen year old romantic, raging against the world at large and his father in particular, looking for one girl to save…
I feel that Cannie from Good in Bed is an extremely likable character because she is different from how society today depicts woman in how they should look and act. When she finds out about the article that her ex-boyfriend wrote about him being once…