Analysis Of The Book The Eyes Of A Journalist By...

Sharp Objects follows a story through the eyes of a journalist named Camille Preaker. The setting is modern day America, in the 2000’s, somewhere down in the bible-belt south. Preaker – a white female in her thirties – has a multitude of mental issues, two recounted in the book are depression and self-injurious behavior (e.g. cutting). Recently being discharged from her 6-month care at a psychiatric hospital for the aforementioned ailments, she is sent for work to her hometown. There are two seemingly-linked cases of young girls: a missing and a murdered one, with the potential serial killer. On her journey, Preaker: encounters two love interests, discovers that her mother poisoned her dead younger sister and herself, and that her half-sister is the murderer. Overall the women in this book are portrayed as â€Å"crazy† characters that take form through a variety of mental issues. As previously stated the main character suffers from depression and her cutting behavior; she is portrayed as a troubled, masochistic, unlikeable character. As another example, her mother comes off as a pretentious, stale housewife whom is also unlikeable. Lastly, the half-sister of Preaker is described as a perverse, ostentatious, deceitful preteen with sociopathic behavior. Women’s issues appear through the lives of these three women. It is the apparent paradox of Camille’s demise at the end of the book, the pretenses of her mother’s insane behavior, and the half-sister’s actions fitting with a young,