Letter from Williamsburg

Letter from Williamsburg

As I read the first paragraph I can relate to it because it talks about how many different types of prayers there is, which is something similar in my religion being for every circumstance there is special prayer you can recite that will help you through it. As you continue to read the story you can tell that the narrator is struggling to believe whether God is real or not.  The narrator says that “sometimes it lasted for weeks and once it lasted for a year.” This shows that the writer is jumping back and forth between having a strong faith in God and not having any at all. I feel like I can relate to the narrator in some way that I find myself questioning whether there is someone out there that is stronger and more powerful than all of us (God).  As you continue to read more you can tell that the narrator is suffering with depression because she finds herself sitting in a red chair for hours just thinking and unable to do anything else such as going to work which I feel is adding to her reasoning of not believing in God. I think that “red chiar” symbolizes her cry out for help being that red is more often associated with danger. In several parts of the story she has to sort of force herself NOT to pray, it makes me wonder if deep down she still has some kind of faith in Him and trust that He will guide her. At first she lives a typical life, who is married to a man, yet she was depressed, was she unhappy with that lifestyle?  She got so depressed that she ended up leaving that life and went on to living a very different one. She met someone else who was very similar to her being that they had both “spent time in the red chair” however I feel like she was more comfortable with the life she had with this new man, because its atypical being that they had an open relationship and had threesomes. For some reason it makes me believe that she is trying to make a point that she truly does not believe in God because the lifestyle she is now living would not be considered “acceptable” in religion. The last part of the story is confusing because it says that she opened her eyes and saw her bookshelf and cat and realized there was a world outside the one she had known and she felt relieved, was second lifestyle an imagination?