Question

“About time you got home,” said Vincent. “Boy, are you in trouble.” He slid back to the dinner table. On a platter were the remains of a large fish, its fleshy head still connected to bones swimming upstream in vain escape. Standing there waiting for my punishment, I heard my mother speak in a dry voice. “We not concerning this girl. This girl not have concerning for us.” Nobody looked at me. Bone chopsticks clinked against the inside of bowls being emptied into hungry mouths. I walked into my room, closed the door, and lay down on my bed. The room was dark, the ceiling filled with shadows from the dinnertime lights of neighboring flats. In my head, I saw a chessboard with sixty-four black and white squares. Opposite me was my opponent, two angry black slits. She wore a triumphant smile. “Strongest wind cannot be seen,” she said. Her black men advanced across the plane, slowly marching to each successive level as a single unit. My white pieces screamed as they scurried and fell off the board one by one. As her men drew closer to my edge, I felt myself growing light. I rose up into the air and flew out the window. Higher and higher, above the alley, over the tops of tiled roofs, where I was gathered up by the wind and pushed up toward the night sky until everything below me disappeared and I was alone. I closed my eyes and pondered my next move. Why does the narrator imagine an imaginary chess game in her mind in this excerpt? Explain what this imaginary chess game reveals about the narrator’s motivations and her internal conflict.

Answer 1

In this excerpt the narrator imagines about the chess game to unfold the ambiguity of his subconscious mind.

The imaginary chess reveals the internal conflict and dilemma of the narrator.

In the passage narrator depressants how human life has no center in there thought process.

This passage focuses on the structuralism and deconstruction by Derida