Carpenter's Gothic

             I actually really enjoyed hearing the reading aloud in class today. I felt like our classmates did a good job of painting a picture of Liz, Paul and Billy. They made it seem like a play which looking at the text sometimes feels like. At first, I didn't really understand the relationships amongst these specific individuals. I knew certain characteristics about them but was a little confused on how they were linked. But as we read along, I started to put the pieces together. Liz, seemed like a very unstable type of woman. She was hesitant when it came to answering questions, shaky on how she answered and I actually felt bad for her. It was sort of like she was the peace maker just trying to keep the sanity amongst her brother and her husband. Paul, her husband and Billy her brother both had very strong demeanors which made it difficult for them to get along. I feel that both of them seemed to be a little hypocritical considering they both despised each other for things they were doing themselves; (Drinking) I'm very interested in getting further into the story, to see how everything plays out.