CONFLICTS AND MAIN CHARACTER OF McDERMOTT’S “ENOUH”

In Alice McDermott’s “Enough,” the protagonist is shown as a person who seeks pleasure and is not afraid of what others might think or say about her behavior. She deals with both external and internal conflicts, which tells us a lot about her by the way she handles them. As a child, she has to obey the rules that are imposed to her by her mother, but as she grows older, she begins to stray away from them. The way that McDermott ends the story makes the reader think that she approves of the main character’s behavior and that everyone should be able to enjoy as much as they want, the things that gives them the most pleasure in life.
Since the beginning of the story we are able to see that once the protagonist discovers something that makes her feel good and likes a lot she wants more and more of it. As a child she relishes the taste of ice cream and is never conform with the amount she is allow to eat or even the way she is forced to eat it. For her, taking spoonfuls of ice...