Experience

 

Agency for Artists, June 1989 - Aug. 1989

 

The story is mostly developed in an agency for artists.

 

Studied under a renowned photographer.

 

In this text there are only two places.

On the one hand, the main character visits a photographer in order to bring pictures of hers.

On the other hand, she is in her apartment.

 

Assisted photographer taking photos for a major magazine.

 

She attended photographer one more time. There, she enters the bathroom to put on clothes, and finally she did come out of the bathroom and she did lie down on the bed because the photographer had to take photos of hers.

 

Helped spread fine art to lower-income households.

 

The main character tells that she, the photographer and his wife was driving to a small gray house, where the dining room was turned into a makeup room and the living room into a shooting gallery.

The protagonist sat on a sofa and the photographer on his wheelchair.

 

Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Sept. 1989 - March 1990

 

The action takes place in Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

 

Delivered orders to the trading pits.

 

In this text, it can be said that the main place is the Eurodollar pit, where people used to make orders by phone, specifically placed on a floor.

 

Earned a promotion to a position in the British Pound pit.

 

Places where the actions are developed: in the Swiss pit and in the British Pound pit.

 

Saved millions of dollars by performing well under pressure.

 

In this chapter there are no many space references.

Broker George was showing everyone in the pit pictures of his pool.

 

Robert Ford, LLC, March 1990 - Sept. 1991

 

Assisted Mr. Ford with everything from dining to laundry.

 

The main character and a man called Robert Ford entered an expensive trendy Italian place where all the traders went.

Also, the main character imagined to be in a big and organized house with a big kitchen, buying at Crate & Barrel, which is a chain of American retail stores, specializing in housewares, furniture, and home accessories.

 

Conceived of strategy to reorganize daily scheduling process.

In this text we can find many spatial aspects:

Robert crawled out of the bed, so we can imagine he is in a bedroom, and later, he got back to main character’s apartment, where she was dancing in the mirror to Sonic Youth.

After having danced, they both entered the bedroom and lied on the bed together.

 

Oversaw the redecoration of a sixteen-room home.

 

Robert’s wife was moving back into the house.

The main character was reading T.S. Eliot aloud, supposedly at home.

 

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Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Rubén Martínez Fernández
Universitat de València Press
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