Amiee Bender's characters in "Ironhead" and "Motherfucker" could both be considered outcasts. In "Ironhead" a pumpkinhead couple gave birth to an ironhead child. As a result of the deformity he was born with, the ironhead was often by himself except for when he was with his mother. The ironhead boy only lived to the age of four, and died from exhaustion because he never learned how to sleep. Its seems like exhaustion is not the only contributing factor to his death. Despite being young, he still had to deal with the burden of being so different from everyone else. This, coupled with the extreme lack of sleep, is what caused the ironhead's death.
In "Motherfucker" the Mofo only slept with mothers. After sleeping with them he would usually keep some contact with the mothers, but he nolonger had intimate relationships with them. When he meets a starlet, he finds that he feels different about the starlet in comparison to the other mothers he had been with. He told her that desire was a house that should be no larger then oneself. Laughing from nerves or making jokes only opened windows in one's house of desire and made it less intense. The starlet listens to him and allows her house of desire to shrink. She tells him to stop asking questions because she sees that that is his way of keeping windows open. By leaving these windows open, it prevents him from becoming too attached to someone else, and for the first time, he closes all the windows. He realizes that he has feelings for the starlet, but he still leaves her. He keeps himself distant, his house of desire open instead of closed, because he fears getting too attached. He would rather let someone go than allow himself the chance of loving another person and geting hurt.
Chelsa Wlodarczyk, Post #7
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