Reading Journal Blog Entry 8

Empathy Part 2

Diary entry Sheila Birling

It's a shitty day. The day started out quite normally like any other day. But suddenly an incident changed my mood by 180 degrees. I was shopping at milwards with mom like many times. When I was looking at myself in the mirror I caught sight of a girl smiling at the assistant, and I was furious with her. I'd gone in to try something on. It didn't fit me, as expected. After that the girl had held the dress up like she was wearing it, and it just suited her. She smiled at the assistant again as if she wanted to say "Doesn't she look awful". That made me absolutely furious! I went to the manager and told him that she was very impertinent, and I told my mother that we will disband our account at Milwards. I hope she gets fired. She was so arrogant...

I copied some sentences out of the book, where Sheila discribes her meeting with the girl.

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  1. Julia H.6:50 AM

    Very good. I'm not sure I can see Sheila using the word "shitty", though.

    Actually, the end is also not quite accurate. She went to the manager and told him that they would never shop at Milwards again if he didn't fire Eva. They didn't really disband their account there.

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