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Are there any other structural elements in the story such as flashbacks or foreshadowing that are noteworthy?

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Are there any other structural elements in the story such as flashbacks or foreshadowing that are noteworthy?

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- lot of jumps and flashbacks
-> shows her thoughts
-> reflecting on the relationship

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How does time and chronology contribute to the story’s themes and meanings?

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How does time and chronology contribute to the story’s themes and meanings?

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- events not in an order

- jumps all over the place

-> shows her deep discomfort

-> insight in her chaotic mind

- story shown by flashbacks and thought-process instead of dialogues

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- extroverted/outgoing
- “never (takes) anything too seriously”
- “going with the flow”
- insensitive

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- overthinker
- anxious
- very organized/anal
- generational/cultural trauma (?)
- insecure/introvert

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- Phrases of time in order to shortly summarize their previous lifes
- Contrast between their lifes In „uptown“ and „downtown“
- „hole-in-the-Wall“ as a metaphor for the description of the restaurant, negative atmosphere
- „sushi“ is a repetition and motif
- New York vs. Boston as a comparison
- „jumping in front of trains“ , „ quicker ways to die“ stands for a generally pessimistic and negative atmosphere
- „you worry too much“ as a repetition and reproach, characterization of the woman
- Chinese/ Asian as a motif and central aspect of the text being ethnicity
- Enumeration of things in the new apartment
- „She was one of those people..“ „ He was one of these people..“ as a contrast, comparison and anaphor which creates a distance

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What actually happens in the story in reference to events and in reference to character development?

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What actually happens in the story in reference to events and in reference to character development?

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- how they met, moved in together, go to the restaurant, throwback to their first dates, how he met the partners and back to being in the restaurant
- first: she seems accepting of his behaviour and the relationship
- later: questioning his behaviour (getting caught up in thoughts about how she ended up there)

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Woman
- increasingly annoying to the reader
- gets more annoyed by boyfriend
- she low-key goes against her boyfriend, passive-aggressive
- no big development, at the end it is the same as in the beginning

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- impersonal (effect on reader as well as relationship btw characters)
- hard to empathise with/ understand characters
- gives them a shallow/bland character
- unrelatable

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How are the readers being given information?

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How are the readers being given information?

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- thoughts of women
- throwbacks to stories connected to their relationship

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How does dialogue and narration develop character and advance the plot?

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How does dialogue and narration develop character and advance the plot?

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- shows distance between the man and women
- feels depersonalised
- shows some of their character traits (men: dominant, extroverted; women: introverted, quiet)
- end: short repeated phrases -> shows that their poor connection

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Women

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Narrator not involved in the story

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Racism and prejudices
Sexism (gender stereotypes)
Power and dominance
White privilege
Relationships
Educational and cultural  background
Perceptions of the world
Self - awareness
Confrontation

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- man oppressing towards woman, does not value her feelings/thoughts
- feeds her empty compliments, just enough for her to stay
- woman looks down on man (“better” job, more money, more intelligent etc.)