Theft

While reading “Theft”, I kept wondering about the narrator she kept describing her financial situation and how nothing seemed to be getting better, since she was not getting paid for her work. However, when the purse was stolen she seemed to go through stages she was excessively angry, then she was hurt, and finally she did not even care that the purse was stolen and did not even want the purse returned. It seemed to me like she had given up completely not just on the purse either but on her life. Also I found it really interesting that the janitress was mad at the narrator and was yelling at her and had many hateful comments, after she had stolen the purse. It seemed really weird to me that by the end neither of them wanted the purse after they each had made such an ordeal about it originally.