CHARLIE M ac VICAR
“A spectrum was cast, suspended in inexplicable being.”
‘Towards the Sky’, in which the narrative follows the conscious thought of an old man living under the delusion that his late wife is still alive, is primarily concerned with a presentation of the natural world. The image patterns used to describe the narrator’s wife, her “transparent skin”, “barely existent lips” and her billowing white nightdress, contribute to a portrait of a ghostly woman.The unreliable narrative voice creates a series of snapshots, ruptured by subtle changes of time, and the use of pathetic fallacy becomes colder, more melancholic as the story progresses towards the tragic, elegiac ending.
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