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Judith Whites

It works towards an indiscriminate audience and makes them feel comfortable in place of the author. By not revealing any details about the author to begin with it draws the reader, male or female, in with no promises of what is to come. This however, all changes in the second paragraph, which, though only a sentence long has a powerful effect on the story. By having the first paragraph set up the theme of love within the story, as soon as the audience is told they are going " back to when I met him" the gaze becomes gendered. From that point on the story has a strong female gaze throughout it, seeing Theo as an object of desire. By telling the story in first person narrative the reader is drawn to Theo emotionally, because the author is taking them along on her journey and imposes her feeling for him upon us. The descriptions we are given of his looks, "His face was pale and kind" and his manner, " he said hi in a friendly way", all allow us to see him in a sexual light. The reader is never given a description of the female author. It is because of this that the story works towards a female audience while leaving a male one slightly uncomfortable being forced into a woman's role.
             Both characters remain largely a mystery to the reader throughout the story. Because it is the girl who is retelling a memory of her own we never get to learn much about her, not even her name. This is because she already knows herself and has no reason to explain more of who she is. The story is not about her specifically, but more one of Theo and everything she got to know about him when she knew him. Because it is told through the first person the reader only ever learns what the author cares to reveal to them, or what she herself learns along the way. The author has no knowledge of 'outside' events and because of this neither does the reader. Like her, they are left wondering why he wore an eye patch and come up with just as many reasons for it as she does.


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