Interpirtation of the short story "Lust" by Susan Minot

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In the short story, "Lust" by Susan Minot, the story begins with a young girl talking about the first time she had sex with a boy, as the story goes on she talks more and more about boys she is with and the different situations she in with them. She doesn't talk about her interests very much outside of the boys she encounters. In the story I feel like the girl has low self confidence and low self esteem "Some things I was good as , like math or painting or even sports but the second a boy put his arm around me , I forgot about wanting to do anything else." In this quote I feel like it's a ...

... to care and love her. "You make out the dim shape of the window and feel yourself become a cave, filled absolutely with air, or with a sadness that wouldn't stop." This hole could be caused by the fact that her parents are never around that she has been shipped off to some boarding school she could feel rejected by her parents and therefor could be trying to fill the hole by being with so many boys feeling there approval. "My parents had no idea. Parents doing really know what's going on especially when you're away at school most of the time."         In this story I feel the girl

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