Chemistry

In chapter three we find out that Esther had been called into the office to talk to Jay Cee while all the other girls were getting ready for the fur show. Jay Cee had called her in to see if Esther's mind was on track. Then Esther went off track, as usual, and began to talk about her physics class in college and how she was the only girl that received straight A's in the class. She then tells us how much she did not want to take chemistry and that she would do anything to get out of it. To be quite honest, I would have done the same thing. I think the whole reason why she refused to take chemistry because much like physics, it was out of her comfort zone. She says earlier on that when ever she picked up a german dictionary, "her mind shut like a clam.", learning german or taking a class that was going to be hard didn't seem to her like it would have much use. She was an English major and saw no need for taking some class that she would have to work extremely hard at. The reason i think she finds it so overwhelming is because it's like a foreign language to her and in the end it wont help her write poetry books and become an editor.