Aimee Bender's style of writing is certainly different than anything else I've read. Coming from reading the Gilda Stories. I really enjoyed the way Bender writes. Her writing is blunt with a magical twist on real life situations. I actually read one of the stories just to see what it was like and ended up liking it. I like the fact that her writing isn't dry at all and I can visualize everything she describes.
This especially rings true in "Fruit and Words." When I was reading this I could actually picture Steve and the main character just decided to get married since they'd been dating for so long. When he left her to drive herself home I could basically feel what she was feeling at that moment. I felt like Bender did a good job with painting a picture as to what's going on. When Bender proceeds to describe the magical fruit and words stand, I felt like I had the craving for the mango as bad as she did. The reason she wanted the "real" mango so bad, I think is because her relationship had been going on for so long that she like it was almost not even real anymore. When Bender said that the fake flavor of mango gum just wasn’t going to do anything for her craving, I could tell that she wanted the real thing because she needed to see for herself, something that was real and was her own. Having someone that she had something with for such a long time was becoming unreal to her and having a real mango and seeing the fruit, gases and liquids in their real form helped her. This fruit stand helped her because for once she could see the real thing right in front of her. There wasn't any confusion or lying and for so long she probably felt like she never really knew the real thing. Seeing the real thing was refreshing and that's why she felt so empowered by everything she saw at Fruit and Words.
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