Analysis of the SPACE

File 2: THE BLUE NOTEBOOK

This file is divided in 75 parts (each part is called “blue”). Starting with the title we know that some of the things that the characters are going to tell us are written in a notebook.

Blue 1

In this file we have references about where the characters are celebrating Tom’s birthday: in a restaurant in a hotel just off the highway that runs down the East side of South Bay. Moreover, there are references about how they are seated: I was down at the end of the last table (Jenny); He was at the head of the table (Tom); Louise was sitting at his right. So the characters are inside the restaurant; in an interior place.

Blue 2

The space is the restaurant: the restaurant.

Blue 3

The restaurant is still the place where the actions are happening. Here there are references about the position of some of the guests: At the second table, Jack and Rose sat together; Dorie sat across from Rose; Sitting next to Dorie and across from Jack was Uncle Roger.

Blue 4

The place in this part is the restaurant; Jenny tells us about the position of Dennis and three guests: Three men in tan suits and Denis […] sat at the third table. And there is another spatial reference: Albuquerque.

Blue 5

It’s still Tom’s birthday; they are at the restaurant. There a small description about how some things are collocated: balloons were tied behind Tom’s chair; potatoes and a small pile of presents in front of him.

Blue 6

They are at the restaurant. There’s one spatial references said by Uncle Roger: Hawaii; because he says that he has been to there.

Blue 7

The space is not specified but it’s supposed that they are still at the restaurant celebrating Tom’s birthday.

Blue 8

Here we have a small description of the restaurant. There are two spatial references: restaurant and hotel lobby.

Blue 9

They are eating and chatting at the restaurant during the birthday.

Blue 10

Now the place changes; Jenny is remembering what she was doing a week ago. So here the space is her mind; but in this memory there are spatial references: She was sitting at a small sticky table outside a café, in San Jose; a jelly doughnut […] in front of me. She was writing in the blue notebook.

Blue 11

She’s still thinking about what she wrote in the notebook. So here the space is her mind because it’s a memory.

Blue 12

It’s supposed that this is written in her notebook. The spatial references written in it are: David’s apartment; bathroom on one side; small kitchen on the other side. There’s a small description of how the staff is distributed in his apartment.

Blue 13

These actions are also written in the notebook. Jenny, Sally (a cat) and David are inside the house, and David is standing by the window (He was standing by the window pulling on his pants).

Blue 14

This is also written in the notebook. There are many spatial references: went to the window; Square; lake. Jenny is talking about a day with David.

Blue 15

She’s still remembering what is written in the notebook. First David and Jenny are at David’s apartment, but they moved into the car to a place where David has his boat: David’s refrigerator; passenger side; driver’s side; into the car; place up North; David kept his boat.

Blue 16

David, Jenny and Sally (a cat) are in the car: David was looking at the road.

Blue 17

They are still inside the car: left the highway and were driving along the edge of a steep rocky hill.

Blue 18

They are in the car. There are some spatial references about the car and the road: wasn’t much traffic on the road; rolled down my window.

Blue 19

It’s supposed that the car is stopped because they have changed the place; they have got out of it. Sally jumped out the car window; she ran down the cliff; I got out of the car.

Blue 20

This is still something that Jenny has written in her notebook. There are some spatial references: on a back porch above the rocks; hole between rocks; back seat of the car; lay down on his sleeping bag.

Blue 21

In what Jenny has written, she and David are outside the town where David’s parents had their summer house. They are with David’s parents.

Blue 22

Now Jenny comes back to the memory when she was at the café writing in her notebook. There are many spatial references in this part of the text: The café in San Jose; all around, the streets were torn up; The cafe was an oasis of piles of dirt […]; There was some powdered sugar on my sweater; I brushed it off; Jeff was standing there.

Blue 23

Jenny is still remembering the day when she was at the cafe. In this part, there are also spatial references: blue notebook in my pocketbook; on the table.

Blue 24

Now the space is not specified and the context doesn’t help to guess the place where this action is happening. There’s one spatial reference referred to file 1: since the party in Woodside.

Blue 25

It’s not specified where this action is taking place. But there is a spatial reference about where Jeff grew up: in San Jose.

Blue 26

The action takes place again at Tom’s birthday.

Blue 27

We are still at the birthday’s party. There are some spatial references about people who are there: A waiter mopped up the area in front of Dorie; pushed his chair out from the table; on his lap.

Blue 28

Now Jenny is remembering; so the space where everything happens is her mind. There is a spatial reference about what she’s remembering: we all sat around a big table. She is remembering the birthday party that Uncle Roger and Grandy used to celebrate together; it is not known where they use to celebrate it but we know how they used to sit.

Blue 29

It’s supposed that this is taking place at Tom’s birthday, in the restaurant in the hotel.

Blue 30

They are still at Tom’s birthday; there are some spatial references: around the table; beside his plate.

Blue 31

The space where the action is taking place is the restaurant, at Tom’s birthday. There is one spatial reference about a memory: went out in the harbor in the old green rowboat.

Blue 32

The space is still the restaurant. But now there are more places inside the restaurant where the action is happening: the bathroom; corridors; ladies room; inside; lying on the couch. Jenny needs to go to the bathroom, so she moves from the place where the birthday is being celebrated to the toilet throughout the corridors; and Uncle Roger is inside the ladies toilet.

Blue 33

Uncle Roger and Jenny are talking inside the ladies toilet: This is the ladies room, Uncle Roger.

Blue 34

They are alone in the ladies room. There are some references about how the toilet is: ladies room; on chrome shelf under the green marble bordered mirror.

Blue 35

They are still talking in the ladies room.

Blue 36

Uncle Roger and Jenny are talking inside the ladies room. There’s no reference about it, but it’s know that this part is following the former ones.

Blue 37

The space is Jenny’s mind; she’s remembering the day when she was at the cafe and Jeff went there: at the table outside the café. They were outside the cafe, maybe in the terrace: in an exterior place.

Blue 38

Jenny is remembering when they (Jeff and she) were in San Jose where Jeff worked: we drove North; driveway; in the parking; we went in. They went in the company where Jeff worked.

Blue 39

Now Jenny is remembering when they were inside the company. She explains what she saw.

Blue 40

They are still inside the company building.

Blue 41

It’s not said but it’s supposed that Jenny is still remembering the day when they visited the company. And they are inside the company offices.

Blue 42

She’s still remembering that day. There are some spatial references referred to what there are there: next to a faded list; a vending machine against the wall.

Blue 43

The space is her mind; she’s thinking about that day. There’s a reference about the place: next to the vending machine on an old table was a Mr. Coffee machine […]

Blue 44

The place where this action is occurring is not specified and there’s a possibility to know it because of the context. I suppose that they are still in the company offices.

Blue 45

The space is specified, they are in the offices: cluttered office. And then, the position of the notebook changes: pulled […] out of my pocketbook.

Blue 46

She’s remembering again, and it’s supposed that what it’s said in this part is written in the notebook. There are some spatial references, in her memory they (Jenny and David) are inside the car: the road; driveway.

Blue 47

She’s still remembering. There’s an important spatial reference that it’s the first time it appears: log cabin. Jenny is remembering what it happened in that log cabin.

Blue 48

Jenny is still remembering (or maybe dreaming) an erotic situation with David.

Blue 49

She’s still thinking in this erotic situation. There are spatial references in her thoughts: to the leather couch in front of the fireplace; on the couch.

Blue 50

She’s still thinking in that day, and she explains what there were in the cabin: on the mantel of the cabin.

Blue 51

It’s still her thought; David and Jenny are inside the cabin. There’s one spatial reference: we lay quietly on the couch.

Blue 52

They start to make love again in the cabin, but David’s mother comes asking for him.

Blue 53

Then the space changes; we are at the office again (the doorway of his office). And the position of the notebook changes again: put […] in my pocketbook.

Blue 54

It’s supposed that this is happening in San Jose because of the name of the file (blue 54 in San Jose).

Blue 55

Here the space where the action happens is the offices: office door.

Blue 56

Here we come back to the main space in this file: the restaurant in the hotel. Jenny and her uncle are still inside the ladies room: ladies room of the restaurant.

Blue 57

They are still inside the ladies room; Uncle Roger is giving a chip to Jenny. There are some spatial references in this part of the text: in the corridor (Jenny hears footsteps there); toilet stalls. They were in the ladies room but when Jenny hears the footsteps, they move into one of the toilet stalls.

Blue 58

Uncle Roger and Jenny are inside one of the toilet stall; but Jenny changes her position to another stall: I went into an adjacent stall. We know that there are more people inside the toilet room: two ladies entered the ladies room. And then it is said where Uncle Roger has the chip knocked off: in Haiti.

Blue 59

They are still at the ladies toilet in the restaurant in the hotel: toilet stall. The spatial reference of Haiti appears again.

Blue 60

Jenny and Uncle Roger are still inside the toilets: the toilet. There’s a spatial reference about the offices in San Francisco where Uncle Roger has arranger for Jenny to start work: San Francisco office; there.

Blue 61

The action is still taking place in the public ladies toilets: The toilet in my stall. And there are some spatial references about the offices in San Francisco and about the party in Woodside: I don’t want to work in your office; that party in Woodside.

Blue 62

Uncle Roger and Jenny are still talking about going to work at the offices in San Francisco; they are inside the ladies room. There are some spatial references: Woodside (Uncle Roger advises Jenny to get out of Woodside); Haiti (Uncle Roger says that he’s going back to Haiti); Hawaii (he wants Jenny to tell everyone she’s going to Hawaii).

Blue 63

Jenny and Uncle Roger are inside the toilet stalls; but Uncle Roger changes his position and goes outside where the two women were.

Blue 64

And Uncle Roger leaves the ladies room with these two women, but Jenny stays inside.

Blue 65

Now, the action is taking place in Jenny’s memory. She’s remembering one of the days when she worked for the Broadthrow’s family. There are some references about the space: Woodside; at school; his car; California Coastline.

Blue 66

This part is taking place in Jenny’s mind because she’s remembering, and supposedly everything is written in the blue notebook. Jenny’s remembering the day when David went to see her in Woodside. There a spatial reference: the beach (David suggested to go there).

Blue 67

Jenny is remembering when she and David went to the beach to have a picnic (the beach was empty).

Blue 68

The action is still taking place in Jenny’s mind. In her memory, she’s remembering that day when they went to the beach to have lunch.

Blue 69

They were having a picnic at the beach and Jenny is remembering what happened and how the beach looked like.

Blue 70

The action is still happening in Jenny’s memory. They are still on the sand of the beach having lunch and talking (A stream of red wine soaked the sand).

Blue 71

But now, we are at the present and Jenny is inside the ladies room in the restaurant where everybody is celebrating Tom’s birthday. She doubts what to do: going to work to the offices in San Francisco or going with David to the East. There is one spatial reference: go back East.

Blue 72

The space is specified: back to the table in the restaurant. So now she’s not inside the ladies room, she has changed her position.

Blue 73

The place where this action is happening is Jenny’s memory again. She’s remembering that day at the beach.

Blue 74

Here we are again at the reality. They are in the restaurant celebrating the birthday party for Tom.

Blue 75

Everybody is singing “Happy Birthday” in the restaurant.

File 1: A party in Woodside File 3: Terminals

Second paper Introduction Conclusion General analysis