Cat Person
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Few areas of life are more fraught with misunderstandings, and with miscommunication, than dating. Published in 2017, “Cat Person” became an instant hit. Here’s how the author, Kristen Roupenian, describes it:
The story was inspired by a small but nasty encounter I had with someone I met online. I was shocked by the way this person treated me, and then immediately surprised by my own shock.
How had I decided that this was someone I could trust? The incident got me thinking about the strange and flimsy evidence we use to judge the contextless people we meet outside our existing social networks, whether online or off.
(Interview with Roupenian, New Yorker, https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/fiction-this-week-kristen-roupenian-2017-12-11
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NOTE: The story contains a really explicit sex scene. Don’t leave it lying around in front of the kids / the grandparents / the visiting priest. 🙂
Questions:
What do you make of the difference between the way Robert and Margot talk, text and think?
Is there a “bad guy” in this story, do you think?
