Anne Moore's Life

This story was very interesting to me for two reasons. One, because I think the life that Anne Moore led was extremely adventurous and carefree. She had nothing to hold on to and nothing tied her down to one place, even if she kept revisiting places like Seattle and San Francisco. She traveled everywhere she wanted and it didn't matter if she had no money or nowhere to stay. On one hand I wish I was more like her but on the other I don't want to feel that lack of responsibility. Anne had so many tragic things happen to her throughout her life and it seemed that it didn't even influence her. At the beginning of the story I admired Anne and her loose ways, but by the end I felt very sorry for her. Through all of her adventures and lovers, she never found happiness. Or at least it doesn't seem so. She had such issues with thinking about her future, she even said it was "the catastrophe looming ahead"(86). I think that in order to find happiness you need to imagine your future and to have goals, which she lacked, she had nothing to strive for so she had nothing to accomplish.