Characters

The Interview is not a hypertext based on characters in the sense we are used in traditional storytelling, they are not an important part of the story line. An unnamed narrator is probably the author of the text.

She is the one who plays the most important part in this text. Meanwhile the other characters who appear on the different stories are mentioned superficially and don’t actually mean a lot in order to understand the storyline. Some of the characters are named, as Avi, George, Amy, Max, Robert, and others are referred generically to as her parents, professor, photographer, man or wife. This emphasizes Eisen’s intention on focusing on herself. Reading all the text gives us the impression of reading a diary. We only have the author’s point of view and thoughts, so is totally ones eye-perspective, and that’s actually the fun of it.

If not taking into account the storyteller, the most important character of The Interview is Robert (her lover). He is the one who is most mentioned, within different stories of the part of the part called Experience, and also the one that the heroine shows more feelings to. Apart from Robert, there are other two characters (George and Amy) who appear more than once in the story, and the rest are only named one time and as we already said, have very shallow importance.

The story Washed dishes in the cafeteria; promoted to food handler, Is the best example for illustrating the lack of importance of any other character beside her. She is the story teller and the protagonist of this hypertext. On this chapter Eisen doesn’t name anyone else.

This is, basically, all that could be said about the characters, because this is a story which bases on feelings and experiences and not on characters.