Me Talk Pretty One Day #4

David Sedaris
Non-Fiction (Biography)
Pages 120- 153

In the chapter Todays Specialm, David gives his thoughts on the fany entrees that most restuarants in the SoHo district of New York City. SoHo is a very up scale part of the city and has some of the most unique and expensive restuarants in the city. While living in New Jersey Iv been to NYC many times and have walked through SoHo and seen many of the restuarnt, but unfortunately have never aten in one. David and his frind Hugh go out every friday night to eat at one of the restuarants. David doesn't like the fancy restuarants that serves entrees with names no shorter then 15 letters. For most of the chapter David informs the reader of how he may like a peticular thing about the entree, but then they ruin it by adding an exotic spice or sauce. In the end David leaves the restuarnt before the waiter can offer any desert and buys, what he reffers to as "quallity food," a hot dong from a vendor. The next chapter is about David's father's obsseviness over his daughters looks. David explains that his father believes a womens only chance of making it in the worl is to look beautiful. Therefore, when David and his sister return home for the holidays they decided to trick their father. For the entire week Amy, David's sister, wore a fat suite, which compltely shocked her father. The father would keep trying to force her to eat more vegetabels or encourage her to got to the gym with her. David also says he believes that he caught his dad crying in the bathroom because of his daughter appearance. Before Amy left to return to New York she removed the suit and a the father sighed with relief and admitted she got him.

I really like the story's where David is leaviing in New York because I'v been to NYC many times and now alot of the places he talk about. I think it's really cool how I'v been to thes places that he mentiones in the stories and how i understand what he means when he says these are "real New Yorkers." I also understand why the father cares so much about his daughter's appearance because backin the early 1900's women didn't have many options to make a living besides marrying a husband.