Heavenly Creatures

“Heavenly Creatures” is a story about two girls, Pauline and Juliet, who met in school and instantly became best friends.  As they share time together they realize they have a variety of things in common like their love for literature and story making.  Pauline kept a diary in which she wrote everyday how she felt.  One day Juliet gets sick with Tuberculosis and, both girls realize that they cannot live apart from each other.  Pauline had a sexual encounter with Jonathan who is Juliet’s brother and, she realized that she did not like being with men.  Pauline and Juliet fantasized about the stories they made up.  Many times they called themselves by the names in the characters in their stories but, every time they were a couple.  The girls were very comfortable being naked together and, they even ended up pleasuring themselves.  Pauline was taken to a psychologist who diagnosed her as a homosexual.  I had assumed the girls were lesbians before the psychologist scene took place.  The girls’ parents tried to prevent the girl’s relationship since they viewed homosexuality as a sickness.  The girls did not like to be apart from each other.  Pauline was so upset that she loathed her mother to the point of murdering her.  At the end of the story, the girls murder Pauline’s mother and, they were sentenced to prison when Pauline’s diary was discovered.  In my opinion, this story was very well developed.  I appreciate that for every scene the story has the place and time of day because that helped to picture the scenes better.  The vocabulary used was definitely understandable.  I think that the ending was unexpected until Pauline revealed her hatred towards her mother.  I did not like that Pauline and Juliet kept changing their names to the names in their pretend stories because this made it confusing to know whether there was a new character in the story or not.  This story was very interesting and, I would recommend it.  Overall, I think this is a great love story about two girls who discover their homosexuality and will do anything to stay together.