Dear Ms. Wilton,
When I first read your excerpt for “Desperately Seeking Susie,” I had the idea it would be a modern Chick Lit in a more humorous vein. What it turned out to be is actually a much more serious first person exploration of Susie Levine discovering herself, finding love and dealing with life. Susie definitely has ‘issues.’ Self image, relationships - both with men and her family, job satisfaction and, as her therapist Helga intimated, anger management.
I can see that Susie still ’sees’ herself as the deformed child she was born as rather than the cosmetically/surgically redone person most people ’see’ when they meet her. That she feels she doesn’t fit in with her family - the born beautiful people who are successful in their jobs and who ‘have it all’ regardless of whether or not they’re truly happy. That she does long for their approval yet fears she’ll never get it so she acts out, dates losers and sabotages her jobs - Helga is right here.
Helga - hmmmmm. Should analysts be making judgments about their clients? As when they were discussing how Susie takes on causes and people or when Helga says that …
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