The story “No Subject by Carolina De Robertis” starts when a chemist receives an email from his daughter. He is surprised because has not seen her for years, and the subject in the e-mail reads . There is an attachment: a little paper clip hovers beside her name. He decides does not open that e-mail, so he prefers go away because he wants evade his daughter e-mail. Then, he goes and makes his scape because he does not want knows about his daughter, and he feels angry because she has appeared improperly. Besides, he stops a grocery store off Sunset for two bottles of good whiskey. The chemist realizes that he has not drunk for days, and he promised his wife Marta before she left to Uruguay that he would not drink while she was gone. …show more content…
He becomes enraged because the republicans lost the elections. This is a comfort and distraction for a while until he turns to the subject of gay marriage, he feels abashed of thinking why people are disrespecting the traditional families customs. Next, his daughter invites him to her wedding, but he and his wife do not want answer his daughter calls. After the first year Marta takes out all the family photo and cut Angela out of the picture, so they excommunicated their daughter because they don’t believe in gay marriage. He decides to turn on his computer, and log in to his e-mail Then, he sees that it is just a photograph where he sees his daughter’s family a five years’ girl and the boy is two. He is completely surprised because they are darker-skinned than Angela, and they don’t have Angela’s features. Then, he did not realizes that these are his grandchild and the rest of the family in Uruguay doesn’t know about them and that his son calls them uncles and visit them and love them. He tries to understand Angela’s words, so he tries to crack their code; however, he wishes that his daughter leaves that woman, and starts new life, raise the kids in a decent home then he may visit them, but Angela has not offered to redeem her life. Sitting by hours in the computer finally he dawn light creeps in and pulls me to the balcony and he contemplates how the ocean is gaining back its color for