ALEXANDER MURPHY
“Do you want fries with that?”
In ‘Araby’, Joyce describes a character by the light that surrounds her: she is “defined by light” and “the greater part of the hall was in darkness”; I have aimed to use this technique similarly.The image of Jessica’s “elegant and sensual body” defined by the sun draws emphasis to the drab life she leads at home. Light also comes to represent sensuality in an otherwise banal world through the use of Jessica as a symbol. Murakami’s comic, surrealist style, as evident in ‘The Second Bakery Attack’, interested me greatly and I have acted upon that in the way that my character’s thought patterns have been created.
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