B R O K E N F O R Y O U

In response to the prompt 
 “Margaret and Wanda both carry secret grief, and yet they have each developed different strategies for dealing with it. How have their strategies for dealing with their pain both helped and hurt them?”
Margaret and Wanda both deal with there grief in 2 complete opposite ways, Margaret keeps here grief to here self most of the times but instead of asking her self how to cop she tends to ask others, as in the first chapter in the french diner when she asks “nose ring ”

“do you mind if i ask a you a personal question” 
 Nose ring shrugs” no what is it 
 “Well its a rather trite i suppose but if you found out that you had only a short while to live maybe a year or two how would you spend your time”

She goes on to say to say she would do the opposite of what she has done and it would be the last change to break your old-habits. Margaret then goes to the point of admiring her answer and seems pleasantly surprised by the answers.

Wanda’s way of coping with pain is much MUCH more public than margaret, and it seems like she wants everyone to know how dramatic her break up with her boyfriend is and how everyone she should know that she is heartbroken. In fact the first thing she does when she meets wanda is do just that before even entering her home she sprays her guts all over the front porch and when she enters starts crying about bizarre things.

“is it alright to be here now?” said wanda
 “Yes. It’s fine. com in”said margaret
But wanda stayed outside and right away started telling margaret about her life story

She even goes to as far of obsession of her boyfriend as to think he is in 
disguise and looking for her on the public bus dressed up as a women she then seems to go completely insane when she gets off the bus and makes a mural of his face out of garbage cigarette buds while sobbing on the sidewalk as people walk by. She is defiantly and very over the top theatrical person and kind of drove me crazy as I read the book.