In the short story, "Lust" by Susan Minot, the story begins with a young girl talking about the first time she had sex with a boy, as the story goes on she talks more and more about boys she is with and the different situations she in with them. She doesn't talk about her interests very much outside of the boys she encounters. In the story I feel like the girl has low self confidence …showed first 75 words of 617 total…

…showed last 75 words of 617 total…experimenting with sex and as the story goes on she progresses into not even remembering some of the boys names because she is getting more sad, more empty, because the boys are giving her what she really wants happiness in herself. "I sat on the cracked chest by the open window and smoked and smoked till I felt even worse, waiting for something- I get for him to get back."<Tab/>