![]() ![]() Dina denies it, covering up by talking about a boy with nice shoes she met once while walking home with groceries, how he was kind and cute and offered to help her carry her groceries home she conveniently leaves out that this offer made her freak out as she didn’t want a nice boy to see the poor area and home she lived in, and she ran from him. Raeburn, who asks Dina why she was so obsessed with the invitation to the gay party, and if she had ever had any romantic interest, following it up by saying he believes she’s having an identity crisis. We soon return to another meeting with Dr. Swiftly is the most painless way, Dina tells Heidi as she personally compares the mouse and her mother’s death but voices none of her genuine internal dialogue, heartless as she makes sure Heidi kills the mouse right. Soon after, Dina and Heidi sign up as dishwashers in one of the Yale dining halls, leading to Dina showing Heidi how to kill a mouse stuck in the wall grates. Heidi tells Dina about how she’s going on a date with the boy who was spreading rumors, and Dina grows unreasonably upset about this, anger only increasing when a boy hands them an invitation to a gay party. Heidi continues to try to befriend Dina until eventually, she convinces her to come to the dining hall together. Raeburn, an old, mellow man briefly, Dina mentions how she hates her father. Dina shortly meets her assigned psychiatrist, Dr. The stranger turns out to be a young woman named Heidi who has a poetry class with Dina, and Heidi regales her troubles of a boy spreading rumors about their hook up, to which Dina said she thought she was a lesbian, and Heidi says she thought the same of Dina It leads to denial from both, Dina stating she likes no one at all, rejecting Heidi’s advances at friendliness. Soon into this, a white stranger knocks on her door, crying, asking to be let in Dina does not let her in until the stranger starts to recite a poem Dina loves, at which Dina throws open the door and calls her a plagiarist. This statement lands her a year of psychiatric counseling and intrusive visits by campus staff in the name of her health, which she rebuts and avoids. “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” by ZZ Packer is a story that follows Dina, a young, poor black woman with unsteady identity through her first year at Yale Dina is a surly, self-described misanthrope, singled out on her very first day of class when she says that if she were an object, she would be a revolver so that she could wipe out all of mankind.
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