Excerpts Critique

 My interpretation of this piece is that it is a divorce and the understanding of it from the eyes of a toddler but I’m not sure of the form. It seems to be excerpts _from a childhood, but doesn’t feel like a journal. The epilogue is the expression of the narrator’s confusion over her childlike understanding of the divorce—maybe the strange way in which she presented it to herself or her disbelief that she didn’t see what was right in front of her. The opening seems to focus on colors and blue is seen throughout the piece, but I think this could be more prevalent. The first line hints at the contrast of love in marriage and hatred in divorce. The phrase “a house which nowadays…” implies that the house was not that way before, something I like about the childlike interpretation. Maybe more could be done to show how the narrator’s interpretation changed as she got older. Much is mentioned about “the spirit of ___,” something that seems reminiscent of being able to get the gist of an ideabut not able to firmly grasp the concept.  The rest of the piece is a string of childish images, hate, and desires. I love the phrase “I burned my heart” which appears to be a physical manifestation (heartburn) of emotional pain.  The last entry seems to be a call back to the first—a description of the photo which is placed on the refrigerator at the end.