The History of Great Things (2016)
“The hotel is filled with wide-eyed women just like you (though even by this age you are sure there is no one on earth just like you); over breakfast in the formal dining room, you make several new girlfriends, all as eager to forge their careers as you are, aspiring journalists and actresses and even a poet (about which you think—poet? You have no imagination for what that life would look like, post–Emily Dickinson). You observe that some of them have potential and drive, and others are entirel...y delusional about their prospects. One young woman you chat with, named Evelyn, wants to be a model, but she’s not what you would call anything other than plain; compared with the beautiful, stylish women you’ve seen in the lobby or on the streets just since you arrived, this woman doesn’t have a chance. Why don’t people know this, that they don’t have a chance, why not just accept it instead of holding out hope for some unattainable thing? It does not occur to you at this time that the city is also full of aspiring opera singers, several of them right here in the hotel, and that talent or not, your chances may or may not be better than anyone else’s.MoreLess
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