Carolyn answers “why does queenie have to describe her...”

Peggy Barrett asked this question about Queenie:

why does queenie have to describe her sexual encounters in so much detail. Does the reader really have to know that much?

Carolyn Fitzpatrick I don't think that the sex was hot at all. Queenie wasn't getting off on it either - she tells her friends that she never experienced an orgasm with a…moreI don't think that the sex was hot at all. Queenie wasn't getting off on it either - she tells her friends that she never experienced an orgasm with anyone. The sex was sad and gross and violent in a one-sided and definitely not sexy way. But it is important to the story to know just how awful Queenie's encounters were, and how she overlooked how bossy and demeaning her sex partners were verbally, to contrast with how she spun these encounters to herself afterward and to establish a pattern.(less)

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