Review #2- Summer, With Twins

Rebecca Curtis’s Summer, With Twins is a short story centered around four women waitressing at an expensive restaurant in order to afford what each considers a “necessity” for herself. The story revolves around an average college student working alongside two spoiled and insensitive twins along with a middle-aged struggling single mother. Throughout the course of the story, the reader cannot seem to understand why the narrator spends so much time with the twins and why she strives to please them. If anything, they are condescending, arrogant, self-obsessed, and all in all, bad friends. I really liked the story because of the underlying theme that bad things sometimes happen to good people; however, were there really any good people in this story? This prompt got me thinking and I am confident that I could expand on it and craft together a pretty good essay. I will keep reading but this story is definitely an option for the final essay (159).