Let Them Call It Jazz
Short Story: Let them Call it Jazz
Plot overview: The actions of the various Londoner’s (including Police) create difficulties for this woman who is an outsider. At first the victim of a crime - a set up which works to get her thrown out of her own flat - she is forced to leave and take up residence at a home in an exclusive area of London. She is pressured to stay by the gentleman who owns the house despite insistence on wanting to leave. Events slowly escalate for her, until she inadvertently becomes a criminal herself and thrown in jail, she loses hope, stops eating. She often does nothing to make things right, or acts in ways which further complicates her situation - drinking and taking “pain medication”, singing and throwing a rock through a window - but mostly she is the victim of her own passive, laid back ways and mindset which contrasts sharply with the uptight people around her. There is a major shift after she hears the “Holloway song” sung by a prison inmate whom she never sees. She begins to eat again, is bailed out of jail, moves to a new flat, takes a job, makes a new friend, and receives five pounds for inspiring a Jazz artist who interprets the bluesy Holloway song as an upbeat melody which becomes a successful song.
Setting: descriptions of setting are of particular interest: she starts off in a simple room, a flat, a place she’d like to stay. She then moves to the large home in an upscale neighborhood with a large garden- but it is run down and she shares it with a couple who show her no interest and she is antagonised by the neighbors. She then is taken to Holloway prison, described as a “black castle”. It seems as her descent from a free, independent woman to an imprisoned woman who no longer wants anything, is ironically mirrored by her movement from flat to home to castle (an upward ascent by Western standards). When she moves back to a flat, she is much happier.
Narration: The device of 1st person narration is used to
Plot overview: The actions of the various Londoner’s (including Police) create difficulties for this woman who is an outsider. At first the victim of a crime - a set up which works to get her thrown out of her own flat - she is forced to leave and take up residence at a home in an exclusive area of London. She is pressured to stay by the gentleman who owns the house despite insistence on wanting to leave. Events slowly escalate for her, until she inadvertently becomes a criminal herself and thrown in jail, she loses hope, stops eating. She often does nothing to make things right, or acts in ways which further complicates her situation - drinking and taking “pain medication”, singing and throwing a rock through a window - but mostly she is the victim of her own passive, laid back ways and mindset which contrasts sharply with the uptight people around her. There is a major shift after she hears the “Holloway song” sung by a prison inmate whom she never sees. She begins to eat again, is bailed out of jail, moves to a new flat, takes a job, makes a new friend, and receives five pounds for inspiring a Jazz artist who interprets the bluesy Holloway song as an upbeat melody which becomes a successful song.
Setting: descriptions of setting are of particular interest: she starts off in a simple room, a flat, a place she’d like to stay. She then moves to the large home in an upscale neighborhood with a large garden- but it is run down and she shares it with a couple who show her no interest and she is antagonised by the neighbors. She then is taken to Holloway prison, described as a “black castle”. It seems as her descent from a free, independent woman to an imprisoned woman who no longer wants anything, is ironically mirrored by her movement from flat to home to castle (an upward ascent by Western standards). When she moves back to a flat, she is much happier.
Narration: The device of 1st person narration is used to