Zusammenfassung der Ressource
On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl
- Characters
- The Narrator
- No knowledge about him
- Tells us all we
need to know,
e.g. age, lonely,
desperate for a
woman
- His lack of identity
may show that the
young mans
emotions are an
inevitable part of
modern life
- The Girl
- We know even less
about, possibly lonely
and looking for love too
- May just be his fantasy
- Not that special, he is
just desperate, even
her lacking a nose
doesn't bother him!
- Themes
- Loneliness
- narrator admits to being lonely
- she has to also be lonely to fit
into his fantasy
- allows us to laugh
at the male
delusion of the
lonely female who
would be won over
by his story...
- Fantasy and reality
- 100% perfect - male fantasy
- amusing naivety
- no communication, he cant
even recall her looks
completly
- colleagues make out it is a
regular occurrence when he
tells them
- parallel worlds
- Man and woman may
have a parallel life
- If things had only
happened at a
differnet time, in a
different place or
with different
people...
- Setting
- April 1981
- Spring = new life and rebirth
- falling in love?
- very fashionable area
where 2 people may
meet, however the
bustling streets are a
contrast to the authors
inner thoughts
- Tokyo is a
huge area
(8 million
people) so
he is very
unlikely to
see her
again
- Language
- Changes tenses, lines 1-5 is present tense
- 17-26 is past tense
- 27-58 describing girl in
present tense
- 59-115 is past tense,
what he wished
happened
- sometimes addresses reader 116-117
- "you" = causes reader to
have empathy with him
- Light and colloquial in "she's" and "I'd"
- Contrast in 4th
section when he
recalls almost a
fairy-tale story
- no names show they could be anyone!
- dont know where they are in fantasy
- flower shop could
symbolise the
possibility that he
would go and buy her
flowers. In real life this
would seem strange,
but in his fantasy it is
not crazy or
impulsive.