Vivian
When I was in college, the professor of my fiction writing class would sometimes have us try our hand at writing character sketches without actually writing a story about the characters. He just wanted us to get a feel for describing them. The following is a sketch I wrote of Vivian. She is one of the women who is a resident at the nursing home where my mother lives. I often visit my mother during the lunch hour, so I have had many opportunities to observe Vivian. * * * * * Vivian Vivian is blind or nearly so. She wears very thick glasses with big black rims, but she appears to see very little even while wearing them. She sits in a specially designed wheel chair that reclines slightly. Her feet are elevated. One is wrapped in a soft blue boot and propped on a small pillow. She is not able to maneuver the wheelchair on her own and must be wheeled down to the dining hall of the nursing home by one of the aides. Because of the design of her wheelchair she is unable to be pu...