MICHAEL GODSON
“Is aesthetic the right word?”
The Stare’ is an insight into the mind of a troubled teen, a pep talk a boy has with himself in a mirror to win the affections of a girl. It is primarily concerned with themes of illusion and commercialism - themes explored in James Joyce’s ‘Araby’ and Murakami’s ‘The Second Bakery Attack’.The narrator in ‘The Second Bakery Attack’ explains his insatiable lust for material consumption; here, the empty cologne bottle is used to represent the consumerist ideals of the boy.This is an example of objective correlative used in my piece inspired by John Cheever’s use of the technique in ‘The Enormous Radio’, describing the ‘empty street’ outside Irene’s apartment to highlight her isolation.
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