“braids” by David Leavitt

In the story “Braids” by David Leavitt, a woman name Ellen is invited to a former girlfriend’s wedding. Ellen is unhappy about the wedding because the idea that Diana, the woman getting married and Ellen’s former lover, is not gay, is threatening. Yet, in the story it appears as though Diana is gay, but is choosing a heterosexual lifestyle because it is easies. This also threat, Ellen. In the story, Diana from a straight girl to a gay, at the end married with a guy and has a normal life. The line “I was Diana’s first woman lover, though she had had plenty of boyfriends……for me, being a lesbian was just how things were. But for Diana- well, from day one it was adventure, event and episode.” Tells us Diana became a gay from that time, and the first lover was Ellen. More and more details can prove Diana is a gay in the story.

Firstly, the way Diana loved Ellen proved that Diana is a gay. Even though Diana became a gay was adventure, but the way she loved Ellen was true and can’t pretend. In the story Diana confessed she became a gay because of “curious”. But she told Ellen due to she loves Ellen and doesn’t want to lie to her. The rememorizes of Ellen “We were lovers……I mean, we lived together, share tampons and toothpaste, had one bed to sleep in, and for all the world (and ourselves) to see……Each day I’d drive an hour and a half there and an hour and a half back, and when I got home Diana would be waiting for me in bed, a fat textbook propped on her lap.” They lived together same as couples. Diana waits for Ellen every day and enjoys doing so. Waiting is one of the ways of Diana to show her loves to Ellen. The line “She cut all her hair off as an offering to me the day after the first night we made love, and presented it that evening in a box- two neat braids……. ‘Don’t you see?’ She said. ‘I did it for you