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What a great review! I enjoyed reading your critique to this gem of a story almost as much as the story itself! Perhaps your true vocation is to be found in literary criticism despite the fact that you are a wonderful author in your own right. Your depth of analysis opened my eyes to some aspects of the story which I had not considered, such as the main character's ambivalence to the unfairness of her treatment.
I agree with you about the humor.
I shook my head. “Nah, that’s okay. She’s an adult – well, kinda. She’ll come home on her own.”
Loved that line, as well as all the others which contributed to the humor of the piece, and I agree with you that mainstream publication these days does seem to veer toward the dark and macabre rather than the light-hearted and humorous. Perhaps it is a sign of the times. The philosopher Schopenhauer's pessimism went largely unappreciated until after the Napoleonic wars when the state of Europe was in shambles and then he was discovered by the general public, quite possibly because his philosophy echoed the feelings of the people as they gazed upon a devastated and chaotic landscape. Today it seems that every news broadcast and every economic report tells of death, destruction and hard times ... is it no wonder that people are drawn to stories which appear to fit the ethos they have been conditioned to accept and consider normal.
Excellent review of an excellent story! My compliments!
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