chapter 2 shopping

Cards (10)

  • Narrator
    Appears to be an unwilling resident, impression of a sterile room like that in a prison or mental hospital
  • Room
    • Representation of white, lack of glass, 'removed anything you could tie a rope to'
  • Allowed in the room
    • Picture of flowers on the wall
  • Narrator's intention
    To survive, 'I intend to last... I am alive, I live, I breathe'
  • Introduced objects
    • Black and blue umbrellas
  • Movement in the living room
    'Stands or kneels only', not equal
  • chap 2 shopping
    'like a parody of something, some fairy-tale figure in a red cloak' an allusion to the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood,” in which a young girl dressed in a red cloak is eaten by a wolf pretending to be her grandmother
  • Serena
    'Pacing back and forth', proleptic unhappiness inherent
  • In the kitchen
    Marthas, Rita, Cora gives narrator tokens with pictures on them presenting product
  • Memory of Luke, precision in the derivation and common usage language