"Between the pool and the Gardenias"

Edwidge Danticat's narrative essay, "Between the pool and the Gardenias," (1996) explores a dangerous realm of originality. She paints a picture of a traumatic character, lost in her own misery. I'm unsure of his purpose, i was engulfed in the characters uncertainty myself. Danticat's created a place a of confusion, a place where most of his readers frequent, somewhere to get lost.

I am indeed confused and shocked. The story had so many things going on with little to not enough clarity that left me puzzled. The main character, the mother with miscarriages seemed as if she had died along with her kids. Which took her somewhere she saw vaguely allowing us to visualize her being unstable or lost. So my confusion was merely a reflection of the story itself.