The author wrote some very descriptive actions, such as when June's car didn't start and she pulled out and got onto the bicycle, her emotional responses to the various reactions she got from drivers, neighbors and others who saw her riding the bike, and the incident with two dogs was very clearly written from both a physical action and emotional reaction to the event. It was clear she did not know what was going to happen to her as the dogs attacked her shoes.
While there is some good descriptive writing in this story, I felt a little let down at the end. Between the car failing to start, her difficulty riding the bike and the attack by the two dogs, the negative reactions she got by various people along the way, and her concern that the police officer was going to give her a ticket and make her even later, I felt a bit let down by the ending of the story.
The author had built up a nice level of anxiety during June's trip to work only to have everything fall into place and Jane receive an unquestioned positive response to her presentation. Her late arrival did not get the same level of reaction that the trip built up to. After all she went through to get to the meeting I expected her to receive more of a response to her late and disheveled arrival. I think the author could have delivered that in only a few sentences and still allow for June's positive report and the story's conclusion.
Since I have trouble with story endings myself I am particularly aware of stories that I believe don't follow through with the same power and I found this story to be powerful from the beginning all the way to the final paragraph, which would not take a lot to strengthen. As it is it is an enjoyable story.
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