She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb

Essay by hannahedoyle October 2014

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Good afternoon fellow classmates, today i will be talking to you about about the novel 'She's come undone' by Wally lamb.

This book begins with a young girl names dolores price living with her mother and father. After her father has an affair with another woman and moves away to start a life with her, dolores moves in with her grandmother in easterly, rhode island. During her time living there she has a difficult time dealing with bullies at her school and the life altering event of being raped by the man living in the upstairs apartment at her grandmothers house, Jack Speight. After being raped dolores turns to food and tv to try and comfort herself, which leads to her gaining a lot of weight and becoming 257 pounds, which turns into more taunting. after trying to attend college she eventually drops out and goes to cape cod where she encounters a beached whale.

dolores feels she has a connection to this whale and ends up spending a lot of time with this whale and tries to kill herself by drowning herself next to it. after this she is admitted at gracewood institute and beings to work through her entire life again with dr shaw, which allows her to resolve some issues from her childhood. when she feels the treatment is moving too slow she leaves and sets out to find her college roommates ex boyfriend dante whom she had an infatuation with during her try at college. after a short failed marriage she moves back into her grandmother's house which she inherited after her grandmother died. she then meets a man named thayer during her night classes with whom she finally finds true love,and is able to be happy. which brings me to my thesis i will be...