As we read and continued to discuss short stories this week one in particular stuck with me "Falling girl" by Dino Buzzati.
The story itself is fairly strange and can be interpreted several ways, is she actually falling from a skyscraper, has she jumped to her death? Or is it all metaphorical representation of living in the fast lane? I had come to the conclusion that it was more metaphorical than realistic. In my opinion this is a way of representing all the young women who try to rush to fame and fortune, they may very well be talented enough to be on television or Broadway but nobody sees that. Yet, here they are rushing through life, practically wasting it all, for what? Recognition and popularity, things humans all crave, especially those young and foolish.
So many of us spend our entire lives working and trying to make a living, only to forget to live. Like Marta, we become obsessed with being the best and having the best. While she was falling she noticed other young women doing the same, she became jealous of how fabulously they were dressed, though she was initially comfortable in what she wore. As she is falling the sun sets, and it becomes night, now this isn't very realistic but it goes along with wasting your life. About halfway down or so she realizes that maybe she didn't want to rush and waste her life, but it was too late she had been sucked into this race we all run. The race to be the prettiest, best dressed and most well liked.
The story as a whole has several examples of beautiful imagery that pulls you in and makes you feel as though you are falling with Marta. For example "...the sun had plunged into the sea; one could see it disappear, transformed into a shimmering reddish mushroom. As a result, it no longer emitted its vivifying rays to light up the girl's dress and make her a seductive comet..." (Buzzati 31). She is described as a butterfly flying as she is falling, The description used to portray what was waiting for her "on the ground" so to speak is very detailed and vivid.
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