Ounce of Cure Response

Events in the short story;

- Narrator is in love with Martin Collingwood.
- Martin is not in love with her but rather in love with a girl in the school play.
- Narrator is obsessed with him.
- She tries to kill herself by drug overdose on aspirins.
- She baby-sits for the Berrymans.
- Gets drunk all by herself at their house.
- She calls her friend to come and help her.
- She passes out.
- Her friend comes with other people (1 girl and the rest boys) to help her out.
- The Berrymans come home early to find her only wearing a slip.
- They drive her home and make her tell her parent’s what she has done.
- Her parents call the Berrymans’ to make things right between them.
- The narrator is bothered at school for loving Martin and trying to commit suicide.
- She finally gets over Martin with this incident.
- They see each other years later at a funeral when she is married.
- Martin smiles at her and she decides to let her past stay in the past and let martin uncover embarrassing things about himself.


The Phrases:

A problem shared is a more complicated problem.

I altered this to mean that the narrator’s problem at the Berrymans’ house could have been not that big of a deal if she didn’t call her friend to come help. Even though her friend did clean everything up, she also brought boys with her which made the situation that much more serious because the Berrymans came home to see the narrator in a slip and boys sitting on their couch.

One bad turn deserves a stop.

I modified this quote to show that the narrator made a big mistake to take down the second glass of whisky because this proved to be costly. I think that the situation would have been much better if she only took one glass of whisky because this would have probably got her drunk, but wouldn’t have been close to get her feeling sick.