In the first two stories for this week "Evening Primrose" and "Smoke Ghost" the entire time I just doubted either of the stories were actually "happening". I know we have talked about it in class in reference to some other stories, I just found these two to be really good examples (plus they came one right after the other)
In "Evening Primrose" I just figured the entire time that he was some driven-crazy poet runoff to live in a department store. Oh, and schizophrenic. I don't actually think any of the other people in the store are real. Or that there are random dark people that eat people and turn their outer shells into wax persona.
In "Smoke Ghost" I think that there is a classic case of mommy-pression causing this guy to have a nervous breakdown and see stuff. And he knocked Ms. Millick over the head and carried her to the roof in the prime of said breakdown.
Thoughts?
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I could definitely see Evening Primrose being nothing but the delusion of a crazy poet gone to live in a department store. I had the same thought about smoke ghost until the psychiatrist saw the phantom as well which immediately turned it real for me. Perhaps because it was seen by a doctor gave it more credibility for me but for some reason I took his story as real.
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