Jig In The Long Run

Jig is one of the most important characters in literature. The need of physical and biographical aspects about her makes her seem like a blank slate onto which we can predict anything we want.

She’s usually seen as a victim of the man – a woman pushed into having an abortion against her mind and will. Since the end is wide open, and we don’t know what each of the characters does in the long run, such interpretations miss the point of the story. This is a story about the way characters and stories communicate.

Regularly reviled as an insensitive, uncaring man who bullies Jig into a failure, the American is another unusual case. It's expected that we know less about him than we do about Jig, and possibly he's even more mysterious. To keep