Was this a hopeful story or a sad story? Discuss why you feel that way? This story shows the optimism that a lonely cyclops expresses. Because of his living circumstances (and the fact that he is a monster), he defaults to feeling as though there is a woman who might love him someday. He puts all of his cards on the table and expresses himself fully, hoping that a girl will come along and become attached to his true identity. These attempts are fruitless, however, and “cyclops15” knows that. He knows that women will “choose other men: men who like to think about feet, men who have thick back hair, men whose greatest pride is the time they flew to a nearby nation and tried to deplete its stores of alcohol…” (Ausubel, 2014) The cyclops admits to his flaws by stating, “I can’t ski. I should be better at basketball than I am. I don’t eat vegetables. But my eye is blue, and it’s pale and it’s beautiful.” (Ausubel, 2014) The cyclops recognizes that one of the only features that he has ma...