Charlene with Her Uncertainty

How to Be an Other Woman is a complicated story which is written by Loorie Moore. There are so many unexpected things Moore reveals in that story. The unique character that Charlene has is combined with the man character makes the story becomes unpredictable. This story makes me think about how Charlene can live her life. I believe that Charlene has weaknesses in her “relationship” that she hard to deal with.

Being a woman who does not have any clear status like Charlene is absolutely exhausted. She cannot ask for more about everything that relates to their “relationship”.

Say: “Call you ‘later’ would sound better than ‘soon’. ‘Soon’ always means just opposite.” He smiles feebly. “I’ll phone you in a few days.”

Charlene tells her opinion but he still does not change his mind to tolerate Charlene’s opinion. He only arranges his words by saying “a few days” which in other words means the same. Nothing Charlene can do because she is not someone who has clear status for him. This condition is same as when I just broke up with my boyfriend and still had a good communication. We were trapped in the situation where we still loved each other but we could not do anything. It is really disturbing me because every woman needs a certainty, so does Charlene.

      The weakness that Charlene cannot deal with also comes when she feds up with this complicated situation but he does not let her go.

You are risking your life for him, spread out like a ridiculous cake on the bed, waiting with the door unlocked, thinking you hear him on stairs, but no.

Charlene completely knows that loving him is only risking herself but her love is reached at the enough depth so she cannot let everything go as easy as other thought. When woman is falling in love, she can do every weird or even ridiculous thing to be with her love—Charlene does. The man she loves will always in her mind, act as everything as her imagination does.

Whisper, “Don’t go yet,” as he glides out of your bed before sunrise and you lie there on your back, cooling, naked between the sheets and smelling of musky, oniony sweat.

He does not want Charlene go because he also enjoys Charlene “play”—come and go as he likes and does not ask for more because she is nobody. I do not know why some men are afraid with commitment. I feel they just think about the temporary happiness because commitment is about the rest of your life. They do not brave to take the blame.

       Charlene also feels extremely tired because she is always haunted with another girl he has.

On the street, all over, you think you see her, the boring hotel-soap stealer. Every woman is her. You smell Cashmere Bouquet all over the place.

Charlene seems have a traumatic with Patricia—another girl he has. She is haunted by Patricia’s figure who is very perfect for him so that he chooses Patricia than her.

“Patricia’s really had quite an interesting life,” he says, smoking a cigarette.

Every woman does not like when her prince says like that. Charlene gets jealous to Patricia. Moreover, Patricia has a high position in her work. She also collects the luxurious things that she keeps on tidy in their apartment. Charlene feels like nobody if she is compared with Patricia. But he still does not let Charlene go. He defends Charlene with the condition that Charlene is too far with Patricia.

       To sum up, Charlene who is other woman to him cannot deal with her weaknesses and those weaknesses come because of his appearance in Charlene life. The one she loves can make the weaknesses that Charlene cannot solve.