Blog Post Week 8: Stuck Girls

For this week’s blog post, I read Stuck Girls by Emma Copley Eisenberg, which was a terrible, almost wasteful story about a woman named Tracy Bernardoni’s bizarre and fruitless interactions in order to be a “stuck girl.” It was a fragmented and bereft piece of writing. Check out the interactive graph here

How I constituted a connection was if Tracy and the other characters shared a scene. Besides Jackson and Serena, the other 3 interactions were minimal and added very little to the story.

This network graph really reveals nothing since the story is written with Tracy as its protagonist and as such, she is the one who interacts with all of these characters separately. What the network graph actually fails to do is show the significance of each character besides Tracy. Jackson and Serena were the only ones important enough to have a name and they were took the majority of the lines. The other 3 characters were only mentioned in passing in very brief scenes whereas Jackson and Serena were in the majority of scenes. So in this way, the network graph actually fails to illuminate anything substantial and actually detracts from the story because it does not highlight the characters and the length and depth to which they interacted.