Beautiful Children Post # 4

As I continue reading this week I sink further into the depression that the story generates. Through the runaways sad stories reality surfaces, showing a truly tainted society we live in, along with the countless people, too afraid to do something about it. First Bock speaks of Bing writing, "He'd seen naked girls, kneeling inside half-filled plastic kiddy pools, doubled over, holding their ribs, looking helplessly at the disc jockey" (142). This line is such a clear indication of how some women in today's society are longing for love or affection so much that they are willing to disrespect themselves in such vulgar ways. These are all major contributions to the issues of today...women thinking they need to be racy to catch a man's eye reflects on how disgusting and cruel society can be. Following the quote abovce, Bock writes, "Bing had watched more than his share of these sad spetables and he had wanted to step in and he'd had no idea how to begin, and so he had sat, a bystander, falling in love, in his own minor fashion, with each and every tragic young woman" (142). This confuses me. Here is proof of Bing realizing how wrong it is for women to feel the need to exploit their bodies that should be kept sacred. But at the same time Bing's profession is to draw nude women. I don't know quite enough about his character to tell if he draws these bodies because he thinks they are beautiful.