Story line
This hypertext consists of thirteen short stories,
some of them show no connection in between but others do. The text is divided
in time periods with three different stories on each one and another one
separated story for the other ones. In this last one Eisen leaves an open
ending and underlines her confused feelings.
It
is very difficult to define a storyline of this hypertext, but I made an analysis
where I define the structure and summarize each of the stories separately.
The
first section is called Education. It has only
one subdivision named Brandeis University, B.A. History 1989, that contains three stories regarding her
educational experience. The funny thing about it is that real end emotional
educations of the heroine are mixed together.
·
Study
Hebrew at Jerusalem and the relation with her boyfriend at the time, Avi.
·
Her research about
The politicization of the masses in New England sea ports between 1773 and 1776
·
Food and vomiting experiences.
The second one is titled Experience, which contains nine stories separated
in groups of three by a subtitle with its time and place. The sections and
its summaries are the following:
Agency for Artists, June 1989 - Aug. 1989
·
Posing naked for a
photographer.
·
Another posing and
masturbating experience.
·
Strange job: dirty photographs
for a freaky couple.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Sept. 1989 - March 1990
·
Flirting with men at the
Eurodollar pit.
·
A
$40,000 error
·
More troubles at the pit
Robert Ford, LLC, March 1990 - Sept. 1991
·
Dining with Robert
·
Sex and hurting experience with Robert.
·
Robert’s wife comes back.
Finally, we have a last section called Career
Objective, where the heroine
makes short of a conclusion of the story and tries to settle down and get back
to normal life (forget Robert and find her-self a job).