Love Me Not 1

You're Ugly, Too
Lorrie Moore

Moore does an excellent job of making the character in You're Ugly, Too, Zoe Hendricks, a very interesting character. I could easily tell within the first few pages of the story that Zoe had a biting sense of sarcasm. The use of personification is used in order to prove Zoe's sarcastic nature. As Zoe's sister, Evan, inquires about her love life, Zoe says that she is seeing her house. "I'm tending to it when it wets, when it cries, when it throws up"(Moore, 357). This reply personifies Zoe's house while still providing evidence for Zoe's sarcastic nature. It seems as though Zoe is never truly genuine with anyone throughout the course of the story. All of her comments seem to tinged with some sort of ingenuity. Through Moore's use of personification, Zoe's character is proven to be even less genuine than before. I feel as though Zoe's sarcasm is fueled by her opinion that her life is mediocre. She seems to think that the only way to prove that she is not ashamed of her life is to make jokes out of everything relating to her life.