Loose Girl (127-168)

Summary:
As winter arrives, Kerry goes home. She meets a boy named Eli and she actually started to feel loved. As her relationship progressed with Eli, Kerry realized why she did certain things, such as why she took drugs. She took drugs to pull herself together instead of loosing up, which is what what most people use drugs for. She gets  sick of her desperation and emptiness, sick of herself. Since Eli lives in the countryside Kerry becomes attached to it, where she can be free, where she can be herself. Once Kerry feels like she's loosing connection with Eli she starts to see a therapist named Deirde who's in her mid- 20's. After a while Kerry and Eli break up and this makes Kerry feel like she hasn't grown or learned anything from past experiences at all.  In order for Kerry to forget about Eli she starts sleeping with men, as a result Kerry gets  HPV and is told by her doctor that she can't sleep with anyone until she gets better. As the school year progresses Kerry becomes more intrigued by writing so she works on writing a short story. In her senior year, Kerry finds out that  Tyler is getting married. This confuses Kerry because when Tyler was younger she was against getting married. Tyler marries a man named  Gill. Soon after her Dad and Nora are splitting up.  Kerry moves to Tucson with her boyfriend Leif. She works in a University Bookstore in Tucson.

Quote:
"Without a man loving me, I feel like I don't exist." (Cohen 155)

Reaction:
As the Kerrys story is coming to an end, we learn that she's still desperate for men. She still seeks attention from men because she thinks that without a mans attention she wouldn't be loved. This simile shows exactly what Cohen wanted to express, her feeling of being no one. Throughout the text Cohen describes how desperate she was and how needy she continued to be. In order for those feelings to leave she wanted attention. This sentence wraps up the whole entire book because it explains how she felt before. Though in the end she realizes that she does not need men to make her like she she's important - like she's someone.