Just a quick note: I wanted to break up all of these description posts because I thought it would be extremely too long to post them all.
I had a great connection with John Updike's An Oil on Canvas. I can't put my finger exactly on what it was about the piece that I found so wonderful...I think it was the way he described his mother and her need for expensive things despite being broke in the Depression.
"Her father had been affluent for a time, and to her last days she had a taste for "nice things," which would manifest itself as Christmas gifts of Steuben glass and cashmere sweaters when she was living on next to nothing."
I see a little bit of myself in his mother which is probably the reason why I like this.
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