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CHARACTERS

(In order of appearance)

JANE BRANDT:

The main character of the story and the person who tells the story. Jane is a 23 years old women who is not in love with the man she sleeps with and she does not seem like be very happy in her life, she needs a change in her life and that is why she decides to go to New York City to spend some days, but in this travel Jane will live much more than a simple holydays.

When I found out California was just a wide dry pit, nothing but sun and dust and people who had found religion and made money selling cars, I decided to leave for New York. The man I slept with but did not love had family there, so he said he'd go with me. Warm Santa Ana winds were affecting us like inner ear trouble, throwing off our balance, making us dizzy; there was a constant low hum outside that caused the dogs and birds to hallucinate. 

DAN:

Jane’s boyfriend, he loves her really and wants to take care of Jane, maybe he gets it. Dan is angry because the new friend-relationship between Jane and Lucy, he does not like her sister a lot because of the pills she always taking.

He kissed me good-bye on the lips. The sex was not good. I caught myself thinking of him as the boyfriend of one of my friends. 

LUCY:

Dan’s sister. Lucy has made herself; she changed as she wanted when she moved to New York City. Lucy is a strange woman addict to antidepressants, she use to read children books and she “colour in” that is her meaning of painting. Lucy has no children, but her voice is like the voice of a little girl, Jane likes her a lot, Lucy plays to be Jane’s mother for a night when she discovers that Jane is am orphan. Lucy, together with Jane make the story capable of transmit real feelings to the reader.

"Move over here, I can't see you. No, turn this way. All right. Are you sleeping together? You and Dan?"

I was surprised. I liked her. Nothing was real; I was in a cartoon, a parody of adulthood, a child's view of what is grown up. It did not matter what I said, no one would hold me accountable. 

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Her eyes were wide and green, her eyebrows thin straight lines that nearly connected. She had a pixie haircut with short brown bangs. She spoke only party talk. A desire to shock, a kind of boredom. I was safe with her, I felt. 

HENRY:

Lucy’s husband. He does everything Lucy says, he seems not to have voice or opinion about nothing (he speaks just 4 times in the hole hypertext and none of them is something interesting nor even important for the story).

He stood in the doorway. He wore frameless glasses and a soft checkered shirt.

"I've been trying to get him to carry a pipe," Lucy said, "just for show. He's so stubborn. The stubborn boy king."

"Teen king now," Henry said. 

Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Reyes María Cañizares Flores
recaflo@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press