Thu, Apr 03
|Portland, OR, USA
How Does Our Appearance Shape Us?
Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self by Alice Walker The Nose by Nikolai Gogol ⏱️ Total Time to Read Approx. 2 hours
Apr 03, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Portland, OR, USA
"Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield A short story about a woman whose carefully constructed sense of identity is shattered by a harsh comment about her appearance. ~10 pages
"The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne This story explores the obsession with physical perfection and the destructive consequences of trying to "correct" natural beauty. ~20 pages
"Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self" by Alice Walker An essay about Walker’s personal journey toward self-acceptance after a childhood accident left her physically scarred, reflecting on how appearance shapes self-worth.~10 pages
"The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol This absurd and humorous story of a man who loses his nose, only for it to take on a life of its own, satirizes how much of our social identity is tied to physical appearance. ~20 pages
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