Longer Short Stories

The first reading got my attention right away, because I can connect with this girl. This style of writing is very casual and presents her ideas straight from her head. There is also an interesting construction of this short story. There are many divisions in the story almost like it is following an APA format. This may contribute to scholar like internship of psychology. Through these divisions it separates different events and thoughts she has. Some other separation makes sense like in “An Observation Begins” where it talks about her beginning to observe Kagen’s brother, while some don’t really say much like the section “What I Can Take As Given” it only has the word nothing. As the story continues her, mental thoughts are shown through her italic font and questions she lists. There is a lot one can tell about the main character and her boss Kagen. From her you can tell she is the nerves type from her hiding in the bathroom from Kagen, organized by her constant construction of lists, determined based on her evening spent drilling holes in walls, and critical this is based on her process of analyzing what she observes and is told. From her boss you can tell he is a philosopher from is continual adding of types of people.  Though this story there are details about what goes on there is no detail about the senses. The story was in my opinion unresolved, because no one knows for sure if the true test was her to study Kagen’s brother or for him to study her.