"You're Ugly, Too" by: Lorrie Moore

Alright so with this story I don't even know where to start. For me, this story was extremely odd and it seems to have no point to it, the ending especially. I was confused as to why she attempted to push the guy off of the balcony. Anyways one part of the story that was unique was the random italicized sections. When reading through this I took these sections as comments that her students or other people had to say about her. I felt that these helped to reveal Zoe's character and what people thought about her. I also found it odd that the two sisters, Zoe and Evan, kept such life altering secrets from each other. Zoe neglected to tell her sister that she might possibly have cancer and is having tests done to find out what the large growth was in her abdomen. Evan doesn't tell her sister that she is engaged until Zoe tells her she should get married. It seems to me that these two sisters are not as close as was originally portrayed with their weekly phone conversations. It seems that they like to believe they are best friends, but in reality they are not in touch personally and they don't really understand each other.