You're Ugly, Too - Lorrie Moore

Zoe is an interesting, unique, independent, and extremely weird person.  The beginning of the story with the description of her house evokes a slight amount of sympathy for her due to her loneliness. Furthermore, Zoe has had extremely poor experiences with the dating situation.  Though some of the men were a bit odd, Zoe did through a few of them off with her eccentricity.  ""I knew a dog who could do that"(Moore).  This line emphasizes that relaxation and comfortability that Zoe has with her self and her oddness.  Additionally, she does not help her situation with Earl when she pretends to push him off the balcony.  If this is flirting, it is no doubt a very odd and probably not very successful approach to it.  Though she emphasizes she was kidding, her doing that may push Early away.  However, as the story closes out, we see a different side of Zoe that is curious to see what Earl thinks of her and her appearance.  This entire story consisted of Zoe dismissing relationships and giving up on the love seen over all.  By her doing this, she is a free spirit not that is not concerned about how she treats others.  In the end though, we see that she is not totally given up on the love seen.  She genuinely is curious as to wether or not Earl is interested in her.