Short Story Going Places Ar Barton

In the short story going places, A.R Barton highlights what can go wrong when a teenager fantasizes and dreams excessively. Life without dreams is dry but life that is divorced from reality is equally harmful, bordering on in the insanity and inability to differentiate between the real world and the one which is imaginary. The protagonist in the story is a day dreamer who aspires to be a very successful person, with lots of money beside her. Only few months are left in her schooling and she dreams of opening a boutique, when she tells her dream to her friend Jansie, who is in the same age and who have a practical approach towards life, and who is well aware that they are destined to the biscuit factory, tries to bring her back to reality, …show more content…
Sophie-a romantic adolescent was given to fantasizing. Her dream of owning a boutique, her meeting with Danny Casey and Geoff’s exotic world were her wishful thinking to escape the grim reality of her lower middle class existence she hated. Hero worshipped her brother because he was good looking and out of school and longed to be part of his world. He was only an apprentice mechanic who worked at the other end of the town which she did not know about. She imagined it to be glamorous and dreamt of riding behind him wearing a yellow frock with a cape flying behind and him in shiny leather, people rising to welcome them as celebrities. Imagined a meeting with the football star Danny Casey outside Royce’s. She had only seen him at the matches but convinced Geoff with details about Danny’s appearance and impressed Geoff by telling him that he had asked her for a date. Such was her passionate belief in her fantasies that she actually went to meet Danny at the romantic canal, hoping he would really come. She even imagined that he was coming and then told herself how disappointed she was. She realized no one would believe her, but an incorrigible romantic, she continued to