No One's A Mystery Reflection

No One’s A Mystery

While reading this prompt, I mainly looked out for the ways dialogue made the characters and their conflicts stronger. When Jack is explaining the predictability in his wife’s actions, I could tell that his love for her was no more or was never there to begin with. The most powerful moment of dialogue is the exchange between the narrator and Jack as they debate what she will write in the diary he bought her for her eighteenth birthday. While they both spur out scenarios, entailing their possible future, Jack’s seemed to be more pessimistic yet realistic. There is an age gap between the narrator and Jack, I’m assuming it’s relatively large, which makes their relationship seem more temporary than long-term. However, I can tell that they both wish it to be long-term, although the narrator seems to be the optimist already mapping out a future that may never happen. While it is not explicitly said that there is a problem in their age difference from their dialogue it’s apparent that age is a factor that can easily tear Jack and the narrator apart.