"How I Met My Husband"

This short story is told in chronological order from Edie's point of view. She is looking back on her past, which gives the piece a nostalgic tone. The structure of the story revolves around the actions of two main characters, Edie and Chris Watters. Edie is the protagonist of the story, and Chris Watters is a pilot who shows up to give plane rides for a fee. Although the thoughts and feelings of Chris Watter are not expressed in depth or detail like those of Edie, I understood his importance to the plot. Edie's reactions to Chris Watters conveyed by thoughts and feelings in the story show how central Chris is to the overall plot. The point of view of this story is first person, told from the perspective of Edie. Edie's mind-set added into the story allowed me to feel sympathy for her in diffferent situations in the story. An example of this would be when she was worried about Chris telling Mrs. Peebles that he saw her dressed up. I felt anxious and worried for her because of the huge importance of her first job. Edie telling the story also shows a transition between the young and maturing Edie versus the now mature, experienced, and knowledgeable Edie. The point of view in which Edie looked at the experience from the past created a twist in the plot. I would have never guessed that she married the Carmichael mailman and not Chris Watter, but the whole point of the story was to show Edie's shift from Chris, immaturity, and infatuation to her current husband, maturity and true love.