Chapter 23 -Literature

In this chapter "It's Never Just Heart Disease..." I used the short story "The Sisters" by James Joyce to draw parallels and compare. In this chapter Foster again talks about the meaning behind things such as disabilities and physical appearances. Although in this chapter he talks about hears disease. One could easily imagine what the literary diagnosis for heart disease is, and no it's not the medical diagnosis. Most authors symbolize a heart attach or heart disease with problems that the character had recently faced before the incident. Foster says that things like cruelty, disloyalty, and lack of determination could all be causes to "heart disease". This short story isn't particularly on Heart Disease although it does include Foster's idea that the non-medical diagnosis is not always the only reason for having the medical problem in the minds of most authors. Authors take a more literal view of the medical problem and will "diagnose" the character with the disease or problem just so the characters problems will all surface, just indirectly.