The story is about _______

She does not use the elements of fiction conventionally.

What is going on with the names/terms?

How do we make sense of this?

What does juice symbolize?  People, girls, _____, ______

Apple juice

Questions:

What is the fresh apple crisis?

What is the author talking about?

(What is the message?)  What is the story about?

Could the juice be a metaphor for some type of substance abuse? (money, insatiable appetite, something sexual)

Gladman’s story is about a crisis of “juice.”  It constantly moves from before to after the crisis.  Therefore, as the reader, we are constantly jostled back and forth.  She uses personification of apples and juice to suggest drugs.  Her obsession is almost like she is having withdrawl from the jucice and she needs it. It is as if she is addicted.

Could it be possible that going along with the theme that she is scorned by a lover, is it that she is seeking out cheap sexual thrills to fulfill herself?  (see paragraph six)