That’s what I want, she says, as a reader, for the character. I want her off of the circle of is he a good person, is he not a good person. I want him to become beside the point. I want him in the past. I want the narrator to reappropriate her own narrative. I want her to stop listening to him and recognize that in giving him so much voice, it’s a reenactment, in a way, of the rape. Where he talks more than she does.
