Just finished reading it. It struck me as a story told by an unreliable narrator, who has mental health issues. Perhaps paranoid schizophrenia. When she's more lucid earlier in the story, she claims to have been married and had a child, now in her ex-husband's care. Later, when she's mentally unwell, she claims to have been in a relationship with a married man, who forced her to have an abortion. So, what is the truth? The lucid or the deranged admission? At the end, I felt some foreboding about Joe and their unborn baby's future.
i got chills from the quote about being a “place”
Great analysis!
My research is about this topic too and I have first research exam tomorrow. Wish me luck 🍀
Hope you did well. lol
Just finished reading it. It struck me as a story told by an unreliable narrator, who has mental health issues. Perhaps paranoid schizophrenia. When she's more lucid earlier in the story, she claims to have been married and had a child, now in her ex-husband's care. Later, when she's mentally unwell, she claims to have been in a relationship with a married man, who forced her to have an abortion. So, what is the truth? The lucid or the deranged admission? At the end, I felt some foreboding about Joe and their unborn baby's future.