Lydia Davis is a well-known short story author who has her readers’ question whether or not what they are reading is what she meant. In her short story “What She Knew Davis writes about a woman who believes she is an old fat man and does not understand why a young man is flirting with her. A woman is questioning why a young man is flirting with her when she is clearly an old fat man. The setting is not clearly stated one can say that this interaction takes place in an outdoor setting.
The theme that is focused in this short story is about identity crisis. Identity crisis is an uncertainty and confusion that one has when it comes to a person’s sense. This occurs when a change in one’s role. The point of view of the text is told through third …show more content…
Although the neighbors know there is no true emergency they console her anyway. They understand the way she is and once have been in her shoes. The theme desire to escape is prominent within this text. The desire to escape comes in the form of the woman who screams about an emergency every day. The text never demonstrates the reason why she screams about an emergency nor do we get a look inside the home. Examples of the text are demonstrated in the following paragraph.
The narrator begins the story about a particular woman who leaves her home freighted and screams out there is an emergency. The description of her face demonstrates how Davis paints of picture of true fear, “her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly” (Davis 2). Her face is white due to the terror she feels and this feeling drains color from her cheeks. The passage uses the adjectives and adverbs to demonstrate the true intensity of the fear. The language Davis use is to demonstrate that the woman’s range of emotion. The point of view that the readers are presented with is a third person which allows the reader to see all aspects but this is an unreliable third person. Unreliable in the sense that one is viewing the text from one set of eyes and not the rest of the people. The last line of the text Davis writes “But we understand, because there is hardly one of us who has not been
The theme that is focused in this short story is about identity crisis. Identity crisis is an uncertainty and confusion that one has when it comes to a person’s sense. This occurs when a change in one’s role. The point of view of the text is told through third …show more content…
Although the neighbors know there is no true emergency they console her anyway. They understand the way she is and once have been in her shoes. The theme desire to escape is prominent within this text. The desire to escape comes in the form of the woman who screams about an emergency every day. The text never demonstrates the reason why she screams about an emergency nor do we get a look inside the home. Examples of the text are demonstrated in the following paragraph.
The narrator begins the story about a particular woman who leaves her home freighted and screams out there is an emergency. The description of her face demonstrates how Davis paints of picture of true fear, “her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly” (Davis 2). Her face is white due to the terror she feels and this feeling drains color from her cheeks. The passage uses the adjectives and adverbs to demonstrate the true intensity of the fear. The language Davis use is to demonstrate that the woman’s range of emotion. The point of view that the readers are presented with is a third person which allows the reader to see all aspects but this is an unreliable third person. Unreliable in the sense that one is viewing the text from one set of eyes and not the rest of the people. The last line of the text Davis writes “But we understand, because there is hardly one of us who has not been