The voice comes in at the end of the story in a flashback to the Visitor who is reliving all of their lies. The visitor listens and the voice says “Where have you been? Do you know I’ve been looking all over? Jesus Christ! I went to Manny’s! I went to the pharmacy! The school! I even called the police! Look at me, Jesus Christ, I’m shaking! Now look at me-look at me and tell me where the hell you were! Tell me right now! (Rivera 1060-1061).” If the visitor is viewed as a man, and No Name is viewed as a woman and knowing all of the stereotypes, this puts the voice as a woman. The voice comes off as worrying, suspicious, and confrontational. The voice also mentions Manny’s in the quote and that sounds like a bar or restaurant of some sort. Stereotypes say that men are the ones who spend late nights at the bars so that could further support that the Visitor is a male character and the voice could be a girlfriend or a wife worried sick about
The voice comes in at the end of the story in a flashback to the Visitor who is reliving all of their lies. The visitor listens and the voice says “Where have you been? Do you know I’ve been looking all over? Jesus Christ! I went to Manny’s! I went to the pharmacy! The school! I even called the police! Look at me, Jesus Christ, I’m shaking! Now look at me-look at me and tell me where the hell you were! Tell me right now! (Rivera 1060-1061).” If the visitor is viewed as a man, and No Name is viewed as a woman and knowing all of the stereotypes, this puts the voice as a woman. The voice comes off as worrying, suspicious, and confrontational. The voice also mentions Manny’s in the quote and that sounds like a bar or restaurant of some sort. Stereotypes say that men are the ones who spend late nights at the bars so that could further support that the Visitor is a male character and the voice could be a girlfriend or a wife worried sick about