A to B

A to B focuses mainly on the character Stephanie, and also her husband Bennie. This chapter started off with Stephanie feeling that her rock in roll self, did not fit into the Crandale, republican town. It's like a preteen or a teenager trying to fit in to what they think the "cool crowd" might be, as stereotypical as it sounds. Where did this idea come from?

It's hard to figure out why do not only kids, but people in general not see themselves as good enough, or are always striving to be somebody else. It's a concept that is difficult to find the answer to but insanely easy to fall into. It's like a drug, once somebody finds something about themselves that somebody else dislikes then they can't help but rack their brain on the reasoning behind this person finds something wrong with them. That something is also known as a flaw, and this chapter brought out this new idea. The idea being, what makes a flaw a flaw?

In this postmodernism world, our society's defintion of the word "flaw" must still exist because if it didn't then Stephanie wouldn't be worried about fitting in. A "flaw" is something that should describe an imperfection in a situation, not a person. A genuine flaw that occured was Bennie sleeping with Kathy. A mistake that someone else makes is what can bring another person down and they pick at these ideas that something is wrong with them, that they should change. 

Stephanie's knew before she actually confirmed that Bennie cheated on her again, from prior expierence. Bennie cheated on her and those long term effects stayed inside of Stephanie, a big toll on why she felt the need to fit into this town of stereotypical blonde, republicans. Flaws come out from other people's words and actions. If a person could manage to go through our society without hearing another person's opinion on their appearance or personality, or anybody else's than they would never feel what our society thinks a "flaw" is.