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Burning Barns: Characters (The Girl (Has her unique characteristics (Has…
Burning Barns: Characters
The Narrator
31 years of age
Lives with his wife
performed in primary school
Seems to be well off (wealthy)
Pays for all the food and drinks when out with the girl
Eclectic musical tastes
Miles Davis "Airegian"
Strauss - Waltzes
former smoker
"I do believe you are someone special to her" - The guy
Lives in a rural area
attracted to modesty
Simplicity
Zen
선
After she says the trick is to forget that there isn't an orange
The Girl
She has a knowing person who married three years ago
21 years of age
she does not care about the things that most people care about
Consider things like age and family and income = shoe size, vocal pitch, shape of one's fingernail
Working as an advertising model to study pantomime
one example of pantomime that she likes to do is "peeling a mandaring orange" for ten or twenty minutes whilst having conversation
Money situation is precarious
She had many boyfriends but all of them were looking for their lust
this guy was her first real regular lover
Has her unique characteristics
guileless simplicity
Made the narrator relax
I could truly relax
I told her my honest thoughts
Has no modesty like other woman
Big yawn
the type who could fall asleep
She wore a sheer blouse that showed her nipples, and an olive-green miniskirt
she’d stripped to her panties, pulled on the T-shirt, and stretched flat out.
die-cast polish-your-skills-in-dead-earnest type.
Had not common topics with the narrator
She regards the narrator as a psychologically supporting person
Sometimes she’d call me, typically when she was broke and needed a meal.
Comfortable with him
Her father died of a heart ailment
She wanted to travel to North Africa but went to Algeria
Met her first regular lover at a restaurant in Algeria
She does not exactly know what he does
The Guy
Background
Worked in Algeria
Worked in trading
Most of the details remained undisclosed
Had committed arson by setting barns on fire
Is rich, has a foreign sports car
In the late 20s, with a decent build
Personality
Much of the activities remained a secret to his wife
She did not know any details of his job
"Trading?"
"She does not know."
"Man talk."
Commits arson for fun
"Why not?"
A pace with every two months
Controls his decisions and stick to them
Only burn the specific one that "could be burnt in 15 minutes"
Has a strict, odd standard
Activities
Smokes
Perfered a specific type of tobbaco from India
Knowledgeable with Tobbaco, possibly meant he is also knowledgeable with drugs
Burning Barns: Themes
Moral relatavism and morality
What made him to commit arson?
He believed that it is fixing something in the balance of society
Could this be a reference to cults? Japan has an infamous cult culture.
Reality and Unreality