Image Study

This picture reminds me of the Epperson sisters. The book says that they dress similarly so that pretending to be triplets comes more easily. When I imagine the Eppersons, I think of three women who dress funny and act strangely. These women in the picture are not particularly being weird, but when I look at this picture, I imagine that they are weird and insane just because of the connection of three women being together like the Eppersons.

The first description of Daddy by Louis in A Short History of a Small Place is "Daddy was afflicted by what Momma called an involvement with tobacco, which seemed to mean that he was always either smoking, had just smoked, or was preparing to smoke a Tareyton."(Pg. 10) Daddy is said to be a heavy smoker who smokes Tareytons one after another. This image reminds me of Daddy because these cigarettes are something that I associate him with. The book says that he pops cigarettes into his mouth and most likely has one in his mouth at any given moment. I felt that smoking is such a big part of his life that when I imagine Daddy, I imagine a man whose face is unclear with smoke around it. Even though the face is unclear, I always imagine him with a cigarette in between his fingers.

In A Short History of a Small Place, Miss Pettigrew owns a chimpanzee who wears clothes named Mr. Britches. He is named Mr.Britches because he wears everything but pants. Although this chimpanzee is wearing pants, it reminded me of Mr. Britches because he is wearing a hat and a shirt like in the book, and because he is a chimpanzee that I imagine all look the same. Mr.Britches also likes to sit atop of things and this image, I thought, was almost perfect in representing what Mr. Britches would be like.

This is what I pictured in my head when I read about the water tower that Miss Pettigrew fell off of. The author describes the water tower to be huge, silver, and able to be seen by motorists traveling through Neely. Pearson describes it as a gem. This picture does not represent it as a gem but this is what I imagined it to look like since I have never seen a beautiful water tower before. This image makes me cringe because with this image comes the image of an old lady falling off of a water tower.