See the Moon? (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Donald Barthelme
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Plot: Antistory
- Time of Work: About 1965
- Setting: The narrator's house
- Principal Characters: The unnamed narrator, Sylvia, Ann, Gregory
- Genres: Short fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: Autobiography, Obsession, Moon or moons
The Story
The form of this story is that of a monologue in which the speaker's perceptions and revelations are the primary content. The speaker, or narrator, would seem to be confiding his deepest apprehensions and ambitions, along with much of his life history to an interlocutor of some sort, a visitor or friend, or perhaps even a psychiatrist, because the narrator's personality is, to say the least, odd. He claims to be conducting “very important lunar hostility studies,” although his methods “may seem a touch light-minded. Have to do chiefly with folded paper...
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