About My Aunt

When I first read the title of this story I thought it was going to be a judge mental one. I thought it was going to be a niece judging the actions of her aunt. I guessed right that the narrator was a niece. Who knew that after being away for so long the chnaces were that the aunt was going to be more closer to the narrator. Towards the end I really like one particular quite that said "I was perfectly aware... That some part of my life with Boyd was not entirely real, that if I pushed it too hard a whole other feeling would show itself" (Boyle 290). It was the perfect way to say it. It looks like you won't get it but then you do. And I especially like when she says "I knew how I looked, too girly, too jacked up over crumbs Boyd threw my way" (Boyle 290). It's funny because I was picturing her doing that. And I also liked it because she realized and looked back at how stupid she must have been. From these words I can tell that they probably broke up since he seemed to never change. But I liked how in the end she said how both her aunt and her were sort of lost now.