Throughout Lucy, we have come to know her character bit-by-bit. One aspect of her that has become very apparent is her sexuality. Lucy is a very sexual being, and the book cover reflects this. Her casual (at least half) naked body on the cover is like her sexual experiences, it shows her attitude and that she feels it is normal to have many sexual partners. When she says, “what I wanted was to be along in a room with him and naked” is uniform with the cover of the book (100). Also on the cover, Lucy’s expression hints at attributes of the character. She is looking down, indicating the depression she felt when she moved from her home as well as her general outlook at her new life. “I did not have a sunny disposition, and, as for actual happiness, I had been experiencing a long drought” (86). Even though we are told “not to judge a book by the cover”, in the case of Lucy, the opposite is true, and there are many things we can see about Lucy that are depicted on the cover.
This is a great interpretation of the cover. When I saw it I really did not have any idea what it meant except maybe that the art was part of Lucy's culture. I think your "reading" of it was very insightful, and how the subject's nudity reflects Lucy's own sexuality and Lucy's depression is represented by the subject's head being down.
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