Elle: 2nd Critique

Excerpts Elle, I get how the title relates to the story—excerpts from the main character’s childhood—however, I am not sure how to understand what’s actually going on in the story. I know that the child is somewhat of the narrator, but it seems that she’s narrating during times where she probably wasn’t comprehensive of what was going on around her. I also understand that the main characters parents are divorced, but again, how can the child tell this story if she must ask her father in the second to last section “why did they split-apart”? I think that the part about the uncle and the other part about the grandmother could have been a bit more explained for the reader—they’re just briefly mentioned and not mentioned again. I like the way in which you put each excerpt in a section and date it, however it doesn’t do much if the reader doesn’t know exactly how to read what’s going on.