Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?: Intermission Summary & Analysis

In her own work, Jeanette writes, she has “pushed against the weight of clock time, calendar time, [and] linear unravelings.” She is, as a writer and as a person, more interested in the whys of things than the whens. She argues that “Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound”—in other words, she is able to exist outside of time, in a way, through her own writing. She enjoys “reading [her]self as a fiction [rather] than as a fact,” and accepts that her writing about herself will always be disjointed from both time and reality.