Responding to The New Yorker

I read a piece called The House Behind a Weeping Cherry. It was mainly about this poor man (the narrator) who lived in a whorehouse, because he didn't have enough money to pay another rent. As time passed, he got used to his situation, and talks and becomes friends with the prostitues. They are glad because they feel a bit more secure with a man in the house. Throughout the story, the reader is able to realize and experience how the relationship between the narrator and the prostitues changes, or gets 'better'.

Another thing I like is the way in which he describes the prostitues, because people would think about them as dity, and somehow inhumane. The narrator made me realize that they are normal people too, and that they are only doing that job because they need money, for their families back in their home countries. He believes they are as much of a human as he is, and he even falls in love with one of them.

I think that this story is sort of unique, because not many people would like to write about a character living within not expected places, or places were he/she doesn't belong.