Jacky Kay
Jackie Kay: “Why don’t you Stop talking?”
-Or: Nobody is simply perfect? -
“Why don’t you stop talking” can easily be characterized as a short story. The beginning is very strict without any introduction. We just fall into the plot. It is the same in the end. The plot reaches its climax and doesn’t even drop down. There is no further information or explanation.
The story is set in London, probably in today’s society. It is circling around one main character: a few hours in a black woman’s life, especially around her thoughts within this time. Her name is Thelma, as we get to know when she refers about her childhood (l. 115). Obviously Thelma is a woman with quite some overweight. During the whole text she calls herself and is called by others fat. She describes herself with “carrying a fat arse” (l. 164). Also she has trouble to walk up stairs to her flat. They “kill me every time” (l. 289).
Thelma turns out quite self confident on the first sight as she claims: “nine......
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