Second Time Around

Reading the Room was very interesting, it twisted the tensions of having an affair and murder in the most unusual way. When one thinks of affair and murder they typically think of the murder following the affair caused by a jealous lover, but in this story the murder happened before the affair. The main character Katherine has been dealing with her husband being accused of murder because of an affair he had, and then she too engages in an affair to feel the same sensation of trickery, and going behind her husband’s back. The twist in tensions works very well together; however, I felt that the lack of compassion that is normally seen in an affair story made the whole situation seem less important or nonchalant as it really would be. Katherine seems to not care that her husband cheated on her and she feels that he would be the same way if he were to find out about her affair.
The story seemed to confuse me a little with the jumps in between talking about her husband’s suspected murder and the affair she was having. Sometimes the differences in subject were hard to identify. At the end of the story it became confusing to about what she was saying. I believe she was talking about leaving her husband but I was not sure if she had planned to go back to the man she was having an affair with or to go and talk to her husband, it all seemed a bit vague. Maybe that was the point.