Sister Imelda Edna O' Brien's Term Paper

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406). The narrator wants to know all about Sister Imelda, especially after they become special friends, more so than the usual teacher and student. As she asks her one day, "Sister, did you ever ride a motorbicycle [sic]?"...

Sister, did you ever wear seamless stockings?"... Sister, what's your favorite film star -- male?" (p. 415). To the narrator, Sister Imelda is fascinating, yet not quite real. Yet, as the narrator also begins to realize at times, through the haze of her schoolgirl infatuation with Sister Imelda, the nun is really just an ordinary human being:

Yes, she had ridden a motorbicycle [sic], and she had worn silk stockings, but they were seamed. She liked bananas best, and if she had a wish it would be to go home for a few hours to see her parents and brother. (p. 415)

And when Sister Imelda's only brother dies later on, in a van accident, Sister Imelda grieves deeply, just as the narrator, Baba, or anyone else would at the death of a brother or sister of their own.

However, the narrator and Sister Imelda are much different from each other in very important ways, even if the narrator is likely too young to realize it.

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This has less to do with lesbianism than with calling or vocation, which Sister Imelda in fact possesses, while the student narrator does not. The narrator and Baba recognize instantly that Sister Imelda, despite her unusual personality, sexual proclivities, and other quirks, nevertheless "has a vocation" (p. 406).

The narrator, on the other hand, although she at one point (when in Sister Imelda's presence) believes she is called (.".. instantly I made up my mind that I would.....

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