Esther tries to kill herself because she is depressed and is not content with the world that she lives in. She tries to drown herself, take too many sleeping pills. None of this works. The methods of suicide that Esther attempts is cowardly. She attempts to kill herself in a manner like the other people, the people that she looks down upon for being rescued and not doing it. Esther attempts to commit hari kari in complete opposition to the graphic way the samurai would do it. She admires their courage and that they do the action, whereas when you overdose, you sit there but the drugs do the actual killing.
Friday, April 24, 2009
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Good comment about how she tended to choose the cowardly attempts.
One thing you should think about is the events that all led up to her final suicide attempt. She didn't get accepted into the English program, she was finally able to visit her father's grave, and mourn for him. She just falls apart when she gets home from New York.
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