Something that I found difficult in Djuna Barnes’s book Nightwood is not specifically a part but the whole book itself. From the very first chapter, it starts off with “Early in 1880, in spite of a well-founded suspicion as to the advisability of perpetuating that race which has the sanction of the Lord and the disapproval of the people…” This sentence just keeps going on and on without no stop and this confused me from the start. It was only after the discussion in class on the reading and hearing what our classmates have to say about Nightwood that I was able to understand what was going on. I then proceeded to read over the chapter a few more times, maybe about 20 times. I defined words that I did not understand and try to piece them together. Hearing other’s input on the book is what helped me solve my problem.