" 'Just kidding,' she said. 'I was just kidding.' But he gazed at her, appalled and frightened, his Magic Marker buttocks turned away now toward all of downtown, a naked pseudowoman with a blue bracelet at the wrist, trapped out on a balcony with - with what? 'Really, I was just kidding!' " (page 370).
I feel that Zoe is so eccentric because she is insecure with the person that she is. She is self-conscious during uncomfortable situations that she tries to get the attention off of herself. This makes her more sypathetic as a character because I truly feel bad for her not feeling comfortable in her own skin. I feel that the costume party is significant because all of these people are putting on a mask. They are trying to hide the people they really are. Zoe, for instance, never comes up with her own sentences. She uses jokes that she has already formulated in her mind. She cannot come up with her own work. It all is kind of sad. It all stems from the fact that she is uncomfortable with the person she is. She is self-conscious of her chin and her speech impediment. She needs to take off her mask and be herself. Jokes are important to Zoe because she is afraid to be serious around others. She would rather have others enjoy her presence and her jokes than know her on a deeper level. She is trying to disguise the person suffering from life itself underneath all the humor. Zoe speaks both sarcastically and ironically. It is kind of difficult to distinguish the difference between the two. Men in the story have a trouble of really getting to know Zoe. However, she kind of does this to herself because she doesn't really let people in.
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