A Study Guide for Susan Sontag's "Way We Live Now"
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The Way We Live Now
Susan Sontag
1986
Introduction
Susan Sontag’s The Way We Live Now
first appeared in the New Yorker in 1986. Narrated almost exclusively through dialogue, it tells of an unnamed man’s struggle with the AIDS through the reactions of his large circle of friends.
Sontag began writing the story on the night she learned that a close friend had been diagnosed with AIDS. Very upset and unable to sleep, she took a bath; it was there that the story began to take shape. It was given to me, ready to be born. I got out of the bathtub and started to write very quickly standing up. I wrote the story very quickly, in two days, drawing on experiences of my own cancer and a friend’s stroke,
she told Kenny Fries of the San Francisco Bay Times.
Selected for the collection The Best American Short Stories of 1987 and also included in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties, The Way We Live Now
was written at the time that the impact of the AIDS epidemic was felt throughout America and the rest of the world. As such, critics maintain that it truly represents the spirit of its time. The characters reflect on the sudden omnipresence of death in their community and dissect their own changing attitudes about morality and