Chapter One-The Sprouting Month
Shonagon "Pleasing Things"
"Someone has torn up a letter and thrown it away. Picking up the pieces, one finds that many of them can be fitted."
In the beginning of the chapter, Jane is just getting into bed, giving up yet another day of not finding a job. She is in the "starving artist" state of mind. She feels like she will never find a documentary filmmaking position in a climate like the one she is in. It is as if everything is falling apart right now, just as if a letter were to be torn up into pieces. She then gets a phone call, one she chooses to ignore. Then hearing the voice on the answering machine, she runs to pick it up. It was a call from her previous boss, Kato in Tokyo. He was selling her on the idea of a documentary TV series My American Wife! Kato wanted her to be the coordinator for the series. Hearing this was great news for Jane. She felt as if she could now "pick up the pieces of her life" that was seeming to fall apart.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment