WILLIAM HITT
“A screaming came across the sky.”
My story, in which the unnamed postman’s failure to preserve his victim’s beauty leads to his regretful assault, is concerned with obsession and escapism, themes explored in James Joyce’s ‘Araby’ and Ian McEwan’s ‘Solid Geometry’ respectively.The boy in ‘Araby’ is initially unable to see Mangan’s sister as a genuine, flawed character, instead only perceiving her as the celestial object of his obsessive fantasy. In ‘Solid Geometry’, the narrator uses his great-grandfather’s diary to escape his failed marriage and associative torment. Here, my narrator uses his avocation to escape the tedium of quotidian society and its imposed bounds, soon becoming obsessed with the image of perfection that he identifies in the woman.
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