Blog 9

In Donna Steiner’s “Sleeping with alcohol” I didn’t really get the vibe that she was suggesting about stereotypes. Goabout her drinking. She can easily be stereotyped as an alcoholic and she makes it pretty easy to do so. For one her apartment is filled with beer bottles and caps. Her friend who lives with her accepts that she is an alcoholic and doesn’t even bother to tell her she is destroying her life. Throughout the essay my opinion of them as people and authors changed. I felt really bad for her and I went from feeling bad for her to understanding her in a small way. I saw that her alcohol was like her air and without it she couldn’t function. I realized that she will never quit although she said she would consider quitting for love she never would be able to. In the end I saw her as a person with a serious problem and I definitely stereotyped her as an alcoholic after reading this. the feeling that she was telling a story of misfortune and how bad alcohol can screw with a person. As I read the essay I stereotyped her but I felt sorry for her more than I stereotyped her. At first I thought she had a problem and I felt really bad for her. It was sad for me to picture her waking up in the morning and being surrounded by the all the beer bottles, bottle caps, and whatever else is scattered throughout her apartment and then the fact that she has to have the help of someone else and that she is dependent on her friend and how her friend doesn’t express how she feels