Most Interesting Short Story

Of the short stories that we were to read in class, the one that from first to last page I was interested in was "Toga Party." It was not very exciting or clear at the beginning. To me, it just seemed like a couple of old baby boomers that wanted to relive college and Animal House. The story never really started to kick up when they would meet new people and discuss death and all of the "fill-in" conversations that did not have much, if anything, to do with the story.

It was an interesting type of story, because in other short stories, I felt like I had a grasp on what was going on. I felt like I was part of the story, but in this short story I did not. Maybe that is why I enjoyed it, because it was different.

There is no way to guess what was going to happen at the end of the story. It took me two or three times of simply reading the last couple of paragraphs to understand that they killed themselves. Looking back on the conversations they had throughout the night and with that guy stabbing himself with the machete, it makes it obvious that the theme of the entire story was death. So, in the end, it is fitting that the story ends with death.