A Feathers Tale

The storywas kind of personal to me, because a close friend went through something similar. I feel that this is a story only a woman could tell that had been usedin her life at some point. When the woman is in bed crying and she talks to a man on the phone, he makes her feel better. I don’t think that the man on the phone is the reason she is crying. I think that there was another man who hurt her and the man on the phone was there for her. I think her was waiting for her to get hurt so he could pick her up again and get close to her to use her just like the other man. Later on he starts to use her, but she recognizes it and goes along with it anyway, because that is
the way she was treated the last time. Maybe that was her first real relationship so that is her only experience of relationships; she didn’t have any idea of what a good relationship was like. So she put up with it and ended up being metaphorically plucked like a chicken. Each time this happens to her she loses a part of herself like having her emotions plucked from her like feathers. Later on she could have not faith in love at all and have all the hope plucked from her heart so she is left dry and hollow.