In this story the narrator has applied for a job at Victoria’s Secret and she recounts the occurrences of that first day of work while sharing with the reader a brief history of the company and an even briefer summary of the representation of women during the Stone Age. I was surprised that she didn’t continue to weave this last portion into her story. I found it odd that we just get couple of paragraphs on the subject and it never gets touched again.
Something that stood out to me was the tone of the story. It was casual, very informal. As I was reading the story, I was thinking that the narrator could have easily been sitting beside me, personally voicing this story to me. From the voice, I also had the impression that this was a young girl, either in her late teens or early twenties—well before she mentioned she was twenty one. She says of Ashley, “So when it’s time for the all-important safety video, she already knows all the tips and techniques—how to bend your knees when lifting a heave box, or how to avoid stabbing your fellow associate with a box cutter, and she doesn’t get why she has to watch all this again because, hello, she’s pretty much already seen it.” I haven’t decided if this bothers me yet, but I noted the difference. To me, it wasn’t like the sophisticated readings that I have found in the text.
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Yes I agree. I mean I can totally identify with her as a person bcuz I have worked retail and have been through the process of training. However, I felt that there was still something missing. I don't know like she was telling the story and she showed I know but I still felt her tone being as you Yolanda said and I agree is causal that I felt I didn't get the big change like in Befriending Barbie. Maybe I liked that story a lot and that is why. Anywho, I still think that there could be something more.
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