Gertrude Stein

So Chapter 6 seemed to frustrate me more than her other chapters. It seems that in this chapter, Toklas (Stein) was all over the place. Now I know that she is like this in her other chapters but she seems to cover a lot of information. She starts with meeting the Whiteheads and her time living with them. Then she goes on to talk about things such as the her travels during the war, working with the American Fund for French Wounded to her life after the war. It just really frustrated me that she couldn't rant and go off topic on one aspect of her life. I think she could have divided the chapters with a chapter on her life before she became involved with the war, one on her involvements with the war and finally a chapter on her life after the war was over. Also, another frustrating part of this chapter is the fact that she mentions meeting her third genius, Doctor Whitehead yet she never spends anytime talking about him. Instead, she spends more time talking about Mrs. Whitehead and their family. I wonder why Toklas (Stein) does this. She talks extensively about Picasso and Stein in the book because she probably has a more intimate relationship with these two, but she fails to mention what makes Doctor Whitehead a genius in her mind. What makes Whitehead a genius?