How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"If you were with me after the game, it would be more like girlfriend."
"Girlfriend," I said. It was like trying on shoes. (8.53-8.54)
For Min, dating Ed is like trying on a new identity. What kind of shoes does a girlfriend wear?
Quote #5
"You know, I hope you don't mind, and no offense, but you don't look like a sidelines girl."
"No?"
"You're more—" chop chop she searched for the chop chop word. Behind her was a rack of knives. If she said arty—
"—interesting." (13.24-13.27)
Min's interesting—all the other characters keep telling us so—but as we later find out, she doesn't think of herself as interesting at all. Joan's all over how interesting our main girl is, though.
Quote #6
In the bathroom mirror there was even a smudge of dirt on my neck, and I wiped it off in a hurried flush, the cheap paper towel so rough against my skin that I looked for a scrape in my reflection and then, meeting my own eyes, stood for a sec and tried to figure, like all girls in all mirrors everywhere, the difference between lover and slut. (19.1)
Why do you think the "lover-or-slut" dilemma applies to "all girls in all mirrors everywhere"? Why do women everywhere struggle with this question of identity?