COMMENTARY

From the reading of this short story we extract a pessimistic view of the woman's situation, particularly of the ones that do not fight against clichés and respond weakly of pressure. The protagonist is always being driven around, in spite of being an educated young women as we might infer.

The author lists the activities of the character without clarifying her emotional state, so the result is a lack of internal description that might give us a clue of her feelings, reasserting a passive reaction from the character. This may be intentional or merely secondary in the production of the text, but the conclusion is that this women is unable to administering her life properly: her actions are generally against her will but anyways produced because of a need of realization, or continuity.

Although the author describes in detail sex scenes, without euphemisms, there is a global mind reaction against the specifity of these from the reader: it cannot skip the oddity that invokes, and is probably the purpose of writing these: dazing. The character is stunned when she is asked to act naturally in photography poses, as well as readers contemplating it, no matter how much accustomed they are to these.

What it also stands out is the use of short and categorical phrases and the joint by means of full stops. The purpose of these is to emphasize in the forcefulness of each sentence, especially when it contains a shocking idea. Short phrases tend to be concise and brief in the expressions, so they create a sensation of lack of information that we have to fill by ourselves.

In general, the text is definitely inconsistent: a lot of information is missing and there supposedly is no coherence between the distinct storylines. In fact, the author has decided it to be this way, stating by means of obscuring the scenes the interest in other aspects than the succession: to relate her stunning stories evading the yoke of linearity.

Personally, I have enjoyed the reading as it was a novelty and particularly stimulating in the sensual aspects. As it was made of “scraps” from the story of the character's life, and quite short, there has been no occasion to get bored, although some of the passages were loose in charm and routinary (I'm refering definitely to the storyline in the pit), with no advancing in the plot of her mental state, but actually necessary to evolve the subsequent ideas.

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