This paper analyzes various themes in the book such ad adolescence and midlife crisis. This five page paper has two sources listed in the bibliography.
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that the dreams of youth have failed to materialize. Part of this experience includes the siren call of the past - the desire to examine, analyze, and relive the wonder
of youth, and figure out how, precisely, one arrived at this point. Berie Cart is at precisely this point in her life in Lorrie Moores deftly written novel,
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? Berie is middle-aged and disappointed that the life is so far from what she expected it to be. As Griffith (1995) points out
about Moores protagonist, Berie is trapped in a marriage that has degenerated into "edgy shtick," which is occasionally punctuated by blatant hostility (p. 365). Berie, and husband Daniel, are living
in a sort of negotiated truce on a jaunt to Paris, so that Daniel can attend a medical convention. In the first few pages, Berie makes affectionate fun of her
husbands mangling of French. She comments that "The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the way I feel his lack of love for me" (p. 4). Nevertheless, Berie and
Daniel go through the charade of being a couple, as they communicate in a tense, but "breezy code of puns" and "comic rifts" (Griffith, 1995, p. 365). In sorting
out her situation, Berie, retreats into her imagination, and into her memory of adolescence, which Moore terms the "anteroom" of life. Particularly Berie dwells on one eventful summer when she
was fifteen and still waiting for her body and her identity to coalesce. During that summer, Berie was the adoring sidekick/confidante of Silsby ("Sils") Chaussee, who happened to be the
most sophisticated girl in Horsehearts, New York. Griffith (1995) maintains that, in a way that Berie did not comprehend at the time, Sils, "precocious, beautiful, at east in the