Four Summers | Sissie
Sissie is the narrator of the story, who details events from four summers of her life. These summers depict Sissie’s childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Since Sissie is the narrator, readers never see her outside of her own self-descriptions. The only physical descriptions she provides are in the third section, when she is fourteen years old. Sissie says of herself, ‘‘My legs are too thin, my figure is flat.’’ In the last section, she notes, ‘‘My secret is that I am pretty like everyone is . . . . I have a pink mouth and plucked darkened eyebrows and soft bangs over...
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