Obesity and mental illness cause constant struggle in the life of Dolores Price, and social and behavioral aspects of family, social network, socioeconomic status and behavior change play vital roles in the health issues that she endure. She's Come Undone follows Dolores and her struggles with health and behavior problems from childhood, through adolescence and into adulthood. We first meet Dolores as a happy, care-free child, but when her father leaves Dolores and her mother unexpectedly her life becomes a downward spiral of anger and depression. Comforting herself with binge eating, television and smoking after being sexually abused by a neighbor, Dolores constantly rejects her mother and grandmother's love and nurture and struggles with the social and behavioral hardships of obesity and mental health illness. When Dolores ultimately suffers from a mental breakdown, she slowly begins to change her behavior to become improve her physical and mental health status. The function of family is a key role surrounding Dolores's obesity. Family cohesion, family adaptability and family boundaries play vital roles in Dolores's health problems. Dolores has difficulty taking responsibility with her own health, and refuses to see a doctor for a physical required for college entrance. It ultimately takes a forceful act of her mother with "a steak knife in one hand, the hacked off television plug in the other" who will only repair Dolores's beloved television "when and if [you] have a physical" (121). Although Dolores insists that her mother must really hate her for demanding that she get a physical, she is unaware of her mother's and grandmother's function in the family as the once to encourage and provide medical services. The clash between... ... middle of paper ... ...personal relationships with Dolores and further cause damage to an already unstable family dynamic. Like Dolores, behavior change has also played a vital role in improving my personal health conditions. While Dolores's behavior change extends of a course of stages, it is ultimately a key event, a mental breakdown from the loss of her mother, the pressures of college and the questioning of her identity that motivates Dolores to change her behavior. Similarly, my reckless behavior during my adolescent years involving drugs and alcohol use went through several stages, but it was a particular event that motivated my change. These paralleling of worlds made the book extremely meaningful because I was able to relate to particular situations and the issues of behavior change in a personal context. References: Lamb, Wally She's Come Undone Washington Square Press 1992
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The Narrator’s family treats her like a monster by resenting and neglecting her, faking her death, and locking her in her room all day. The Narrator’s family resents her, proof of this is found when the Narrator states “[My mother] came and went as quickly as she could.
At the beginning of the novel she is just a young girl living with her mother and grandmother. Ever since the beginning, what has concerned me is how often the author describes Dolores by describing her body. Even before we knew what she was like as a person we knew she was overweight, and she was just a teenager. Describing women by their bodies is popular amongst men. When asked about a woman, men typically first describe their body types. Because that's the first thing they notice about a woman. And men then judge a woman by her body type what kind of person she is. Wally Lamb seems to be famous for constantly mentioning women's bodies like they're the only thing that matters about a woman. In Wally Lamb’s introduction to the novel he talks about being a student teacher and says “, I decided I would save Sheila’s life by engaging her in class discussion. But each time I called on her, she shook her head and remained silent. Her fat fortress that no rookie teacher was going to penetrate.” He said Dolores was inspired by Sheila. But it's gross that he just described a high school girl simply as fat. And that she’s quiet because she’s fat. And the reality is is that he doesn’t know her. He just made assumptions about a girl based on her body type. But the only thing combating against this notion is that one of the focal points of the novel has to do with Dolores’s weight and how she’s ‘coming