Blog # 9: “Literary Criticism"

In “How to Be an Other Woman” Loorie Moore explains her relationship with the married man. She explains how they meet outside in the cold, both waiting for the bus, and the dates he takes her on. He finally tells her he has a wife and tells her his wife’s name. She now knows he is married, yet she continues dating him and sleeping with him, not thinking about consequences that will come throughout the rest of the story.
The other relationship that is not talked about a lot throughout the story is between the man and Patricia. They are married, yet she doesn’t know that he is having an affair. She knows nothing about the narrator and her husband’s relationship.
There is another relationship I noticed. Towards the end of the story, she visits his house. Inside she sees pictures of Patricia and her husband. When he falls asleep, she goes into her closet and sees her shoes. When she leaves his house she thinks she sees Patricia in everybody that walks by. The relationship here that I see is that she feels bad for interfering in Patricia’s relationship with her husband.