I really liked the discussion in class Thursday about our reading. It made me understand a few things a little better, and it gave me a different perspective on some things also. Re-reading The Blessed House helped me out too. I felt like I understood it a bit better. I didn't really find it an extremely humorous story though. Or really even slightly humorous. Interesting, yes. Unique, yes. Captivating, maybe. Humorous, no. Maybe I just have a different type of sense of humor. Or maybe I need to see the story in acting form. Either way, I had to search for things to laugh about.

When analyzing the characters though, I learned something that relates to everyone in life, not just in this story. Everyone is someone in God, whether they know it or not. If you know that you are someone in God though, what does that mean? Can you do anything with that knowledge? Like you can evaluate your inner self and outer self and work on making things better, but what do you do with your self in God? Do you just know that you are nothing without God because He is the one that created you, and that's it? Something to think about.

I feel like in this story that the characters didn't really know each other yet. He was just figuring out someone of the things she did which annoyed him. That makes sense because they had only known each other for about four months before tying the knot. Then again, how can you really get to know anyone unless you are living with them day in and day out? Only then can you really see everything quirky thing about them. I wonder if Sanjeev really liked Twinkle after that party. I felt like he was really frustrated and annoyed during the party until he had that "moment" where he "felt" something. Which that doesn't really make a lot of sense to me, either. Did that moment just vanish when Twinkle came down the stairs?

One specific thing the class discussion helped me to understand, was one of the very last little paragraphs where he was talking about her shoes. He told her that he had put them in the bedroom and she said thanks, but that her feet her. That didn't really make sense until we made the connection to earlier in the story where he fantasized about her coming down the stairs and running to put the shoes on. However, now that I think about it, earlier in the story he didn't like for her to wear the high-heels and even tried to get her not to wear them. Weird.