Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Bess’ Men of Business

I am assuming this story is part of what Bess described in class last week about thing that happened to her family that no one believes, which is an interesting idea to work with because, as a work of fiction, that is exactly what the readers are going to do — not believe it (as fact). So I think there is a fun game to play here, and using your name only adds to it because, as a work of fiction, every character is just that — a character. So even if this is supposed to be Bess and Bess went through all these things, the character is still the character Bess in Men of Business.
To contrast this story with the last one — it’s entirely different. There’s no movement, where the last one was about movement. The environment is built and the warehouse created and filled with big machines. The goons are given large necks.
However, it is not the actual story I am interested in because this story happened to some other dude (the father). I am interested in the voice Bess has created — the way she stereotypes the Italian mafia man or what she admires in her father. It is, after all, in the first-person.

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