RAFAEL GIL-NOGUÉS

SIMPLE PLOT

In this story there are three partner: Sara and Arthur, Bea and Scan, Rachel and Ned. All of them live in the same house and they have a rare style of life. In the first case, Sara and Arthur, she lives in the opposite way of thet have been educated by her mother. She adopt bad habits in opposition the values what her mother have tried to give to his daughter. They lived in an anarchic context with a lot of disorder. They think that this behaviour was the best in the life, but they in his inner thoughts would prefer other situation in their life.We can see it when Arthur says: “Will we someday care about reading at the table?- I can’t imagine”.

The conversations between the girls are always dealing with sexual subjects. They treat it ironically. Once Sara and Rachel went to the comercial center and they began to talk about the possibility to prostitute themshelves. Sara and Rachel talk about the fault of hygiene in this “profession”: “They discussed the problems of violence, disease. If it could be kept sanitary, they agreed.” They would administrate the sex periodically: “I just can’t drum up a strong feeling about prostitution” – Sara admitted. Besides, they were talking about the violence and the possible diseases what are around the prostitution. They treat this sad situation of some of the women. We can see here: “We could send out appointment cards: It’s time for your fuck”.

The type of dialogues what the cast in this story is maintained between them are very absurd and are daily routines. This is one of the ways that Martha Conway’s uses to approach a lot to the reader (in this case the hypertextual reader). One example could be when Sean, Ned and Arthur are talking about the bad quality of food they eat. They talk about the bad health of their stomach when they eat bacon.

The narrative of the story is in the third person such as the dialectal sequences. We can see it when they have a dialogue about the role of the woman into the marriage where the woman loses her freedom and begins to be slave of her partner: “Marriage is the enslavement of women” – Bea said., and she must to live in a different style of life: the family.

Other of the episodes what the author relates is when Sara and Arthur, Rachel and Ned, Bea and Sean -- went to a computer awards ceremony. They spend their time talking about a shepherd who wished much to marry, and was acquainted with three sisters who were all equally pretty, so that it was difficult for him to make a choice, and he could not decide to give the preference to any one of them. Then he asked his mother for advice. “Invite all three, and set some cheese before them, and watch how they eat it", said the sepherd’s mother to his son.

The last conversation that is molded in the work is which keeps speaking about the capacity of change the style of life that have some people, that resists with the desires to continue this type of life and do not act as an attorney bigger preoccupations nor responsibilities. We can see when the Martha Conway uses the conditional: “We would probably...”

The work ends talking about the necessity of the existence of the free time in the people’s life and its importance: “We like our free time.”

Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Rafael Gil-Nogués
ragilno@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press