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The text is divided in three different “files”,where the actions take place:
– “A Party in Woodside”.
– “The Blue Notebook”.
– “Terminals”.
The action mainly takes place in four spaces described through the narration:
– Broadthrow’s House,Woodside,California.
– Restaurant of hotel.
– Offices of a company.
– Room of Jenny;places of her thoughts,memories,dreams
and nightmares.
The titles of each part give us an idea of what they’ll contain.
We remark that all the dreams,thoughts,memories and nightmares are taking place in Jenny’s mind.
In A Party in Woodside,we find “party” and “Woodside” as references to introduce us where the history will be taken place and what is going to happen.Every part is a party from 1-74.
PARTY 1
The party was in Caroline Broadthrow’s house,in Woodside:”Broadthrow’s party”.
PARTY 2
With the location”Woodside,California”,we know that Caroline Broadthrow’s family live in California.
PARTY 3
“My room at the house in Woodside is in the back of the garage where Tom and Louse keep their two Mercedes”;it refers to her own room and private space in the house.
PARTY 4
“Greek Delicatessen”;Louise is inside,buying olives.The sales man is behind the counter.
PARTY 5
“Tinnywind or Tinnywild”;imaginary living place,”Western beaches” and “Eastern Seacoast”;where Tinnywild is;are space marks of imaginary places in Jenny’s mind,in her dreams.
PARTY 6
“I was opposite a girl with short, neat brown hair and a small white collar on her red plaid dress”;Jenny’s seat in the party.
PARTY 7
He walks through the street of his imaginary town,always in her mind.
PARTY 8
“Massachusetts”;the action isn’t taking place there.
PARTY 9
“Station” and “train” refer to public spaces,in a memory,in her mind.
PARTY 10
“Uncle Roger invited me to his home”and “the living room”refer to a visit to Uncle Roger in “California”.
PARTY 11
The house,where the party takes place,is describes as an interior space.
PARTY 12
“Jeff and I were standing in a shallow pool; water came up to our waists”;dream about Jeff in a swimming pool.
PARTY 13
“Train”,”Washington,DC” and “San Francisco” refer to places in her dream.
PARTY 14
“Here in Woodside” and ” Inside, the floors are covered by dense blue grey carpets, and all the walls are painted pale pink” refer to the house in Woodside.”Massachusetts, near Broadthrow headquarters” refers to the second house and “The Cottage” and “New Hampshire” refer to the third house.
PARTY 15
“The cottage in New Hampshire”,Broadthrows’s summer residence
“Paris”;he went to visit Louise,in August;”Huntsville”;where was Tom and “Mexico”;where Leslie,the former babysitter,went unexpectedly.
“At the San Francisco airport”;where she was with Mark,Caroline and Louise,two weeks ago.
PARTY 16
“On the car door”;it takes place in a car.
PARTY 17
“Mark was sitting on the couch; Beside him […] Mark’s English teacher, Miss G”;it describes the place of sitting Mark and his English teacher.
“I went back to the long boat in Tinnywind harbor”;it takes place in Tinny Harbor.
PARTY 18
“Small islands”,”Tinnywind harbor”,”rowboat”,”little island”,”one tree on the island”and “sat on the warm sand”;refer to Tinnywind,her imaginary place where she is living.
PARTY 19
It describes the position of the cat(“sitting on the windowsill”)and Uncle Roger(“outside”),changing after(“Louise let Uncle Roger in”),in Broadthrow’s house(“Broadthrow’s front door”).
PARTY 20
“New York”;Louise thinks Uncle Roger is there.
PARTY 21
Jenny describes what Uncle Roger and his grandfather usually do.
PARTY 22
“Haiti”;Uncle Roger suggests Jenny to go there,tomorrow.
PARTY 23
“There are three upstairs” it refers to the high of the house and the “bathrooms”,where Uncle Roger needs to go.
PARTY 24
“By the bar that separates the kitchen form the dining room”;it refers to a description of the house.
PARTY 25
“Jane was sitting beside Caroline on the white couch”;it refers to where Jane and Caroline are sitting.
PARTY 26
“Massachusetts”;where Jack came out from.
PARTY 27
“Texas”;where is Jack from.
PARTY 28
“Went out the front door”,”Under his arm” and “He left”;it refers to Uncle Roger’s leaving.
PARTY 29
“Lying on my pillow now”,it refers to the situation of Puffy,the cat.
PARTY 30
“I sat down beside Caroline and Jane”,”Louise was standing over us” and”Caroline got up”are references to the places where people are sit.
PARTY 31
“Jack showed me around their new home in Sunnyvale”,it refers to an excursion to Sunnyvale.
PARTY 32
It refers to the conversation with Jane(“I moved a little closer to Jane on the white couch”):she grew up in Massachusetts(“from Massachusetts, near where I grew up”) and she worked in Boston,in a lab(“in a lab on route 128 in Boston”).
PARTY 33
“Jack and Jane’s house was paneled with brown plastic wood and on the mantel there was a photograph of Jack and the Secretary of Defense”;this is a description of Jack and Jane’s house(Broadthrows).
PARTY 34
“A party on a cruise ship”;here we have a mark of fictional and real space.
PARTY 35
“Rose has got her hand on your husband’s crotch again”;Rose is touching Jane’s husband.
PARTY 36
“The woman who sat down on the couch beside Jane”,a woman speaking with Jane.
PARTY 37
“Bathroom”;Jane needs to go there.
PARTY 38
Jenny is inside the party(“me sitting on the couch”) and Jeff comes in(“Jeff came in”).
PARTY 39
“Jeff sat down beside me on the couch”;Jenny and Jeff are talking.
PARTY 40
“How do you like California?”;Jeff asks Jenny about California.
PARTY 41
“Puffy jumped into Jeff’s lap”;the cat is with them.
PARTY 42
“He had been born in San Jose and lived there all his life”;Jeff was born in San Jose and lived there.
PARTY 43
“Tom came over”;Tom is with them,now.
PARTY 44
“Puffy jumped off Jeff’s lap and ran under the couch”;Puffy changes his position.
PARTY 45
“Sitting on a silver chair”;it refers to Caroline’s position.
PARTY 46
“Headed up the stairs”;Caroline and Jenny are going there.
PARTY 47
“To the party”;it refers to the fact that they are still in the party.
PARTY 48
“Then I went back to the party to say goodnight. As I walked into the room”;space changes as Jenny goes back to the party.
PARTY 49
“My room”,”through the garage”,”past the two Mercedes”,”into my little room” and “back home in Boston”;they refer to the different spaces where the action takes place.
PARTY 50
“The swimming pool in my dream was surrounded by an ivy covered fence and large maple trees.The grass was bright yellow-green”;it refers to a description about the swimming pool where Jenny’s dream takes place.
PARTY 51
“On the bureau in his residence, Uncle Roger has a ceramic egg”,”sitting in a little basket full of yellow straw”,”a small piece of paper” and “is stuck in the straw”;it refers to Uncle Roger’s bureau in his residence.
PARTY 52
“Lying on the sand beside the water on a small island in Trinnywind Harbor”;it refers to her dream with Jeff in Tinnywind Harbor.
PARTY 53
“I was in Venice, Italy”;”lobby of my hotel”;”into a gondola”;”out of the gondola”;she dreams that she is in Venice,waiting for Tom.
(There are 74 parties but in the other 21 parties there aren’t any space marks or are there in the same place and have the same space marks than previously noted)
The Blue Notebook contains experiences of the characters,written and described in this notebook.Every part is a blue,from 1-75.
We always have descriptions about erotic situations.
BLUE 1
“A restaurant in a hotel just off the highway that runs down the East side of South Bay”;there are references to where the characters are celebrating Tom’s birthday and where they are sitting(“I was down at the end of the last table;he was at the head of the table;Louise was sitting at his right”).
BLUE 2
They are in a restaurant:”the restaurant”.
BLUE 3
“At the second table, Jack and Rose sat together”,”Dorie sat across from Rose”,”Sitting next to Dorie and across from Jack was Uncle Roger”;here there are references to the positions of the guests.
BLUE 4
“Three men in tan suits and Denis sat at the third table”;it refers to the position of Dennis and three of the rest of the guests.
BLUE 5
“Alburquerque”;it refers to a place.
BLUE 6
“Balloons were tied behind Tom’s chair” and “potatoes and a small pile of presents in front of him”;refer to positions of somethings in the table of the restaurant.
BLUE 7
“Hawaii”;Uncle Roger explains she has been there once.
BLUE 8
“Restaurant” and “hotel lobby”;refer to descriptions of some parts of the restaurant.
BLUE 9
“Sitting at a small sticky table outside a café, in San Jose; a jelly doughnut in front of me”;it refers to a memory in Jenny’s mind and there is a spatial change.
BLUE 10
“David’s apartment”,”Bathroom on one side” and “Small kitchen on the other side”;it refers to a staff distributed,in David’s apartment;all is written in her blue notebook.
BLUE 11
“He was standing by the window pulling on his pants”;it refers to David’s position.
BLUE 12
“Went to the window”,”Square” and “Lake” are referred to a conversation Jenny-David.
BLUE 13
“David’s refrigerator”,”passenger side”,”driver’s side”,”into the car”,”place up North” and “David kept his boat”;it refers to David’s boat,the main space for the action,now.
BLUE 14
“David was looking at the road”,”left the highway and were driving along the edge of a steep rocky hill”,”wasn’t much traffic on the road” and “rolled down my window”;the action takes place into David’s car and in the road.
BLUE 15
“On a back porch above the rocks”,”hole between rocks”,”back seat of the car” and “lay down on his sleeping bag”;it refers to some note in her notebook.
BLUE 16
“Sally jumped out the car window; she ran down the cliff; I got out of the car”;the action takes place outside the car.
BLUE 17
“Outside the town where David’s parents had their summer house”;the action takes place in David’s parents summer house.
BLUE 18
“The café in San Jose; all around, the streets were torn up; The cafe was an oasis of piles of dirt […]; There was some powdered sugar on my sweater; I brushed it off; Jeff was standing there”,”blue notebook in my pocketbook”,”on the table”,”the action is taking place in a memory about a café”.
BLUE 19
“Since the party in Woodside”;is like a flashback into the past.
BLUE 20
“A waiter mopped up the area in front of Dorie”,”pushed his chair out from the table”,”on his lap”,”around the table”,”beside his plate”;it refers still to tom’s birthday,in the restaurant of a hotel.
BLUE 21
“We all sat around a big table”;Uncle Roger and Grandy had the birthday party together.
BLUE 22
“Went out in the harbor in the old green rowboat”;this is about a memory,that takes place in Jenny’s mind.
BLUE 23
“The bathroom”,”corridors”,”ladies room”,”inside”,”lying on the couch” and “this is the ladies room, Uncle Roger”;refer to the fact that Jenny needs to go into the ladies toilet and Uncle Roger is in.
BLUE 24
“Ladies room”,”on chrome shelf under the green marble bordered mirror”;they are descriptions about the bathroom.
BLUE 25
“At the table outside the café”;they are speaking about when Jenny met Jeff,in a terrace,outside the café.
BLUE 26
“We drove North”,”driveway”,”in the parking”,”we went in”,”next to a faded list”,”a vending machine against the wall”,”next to the vending machine on an old table was a Mr. Coffee machine”,”cluttered office”,”cluttered office”,”the doorway of his office”;these are references about the company where Jeff worked,in San Jose,the offices and that day they spent together.
BLUE 27
“The road” and “driveway”;Jenny and David were inside the car.
BLUE 28
“Pulled out of my pocketbook”,;change in the position of the notebook.
BLUE 29
“Log cabin”,”on the mantel of the cabin”;she describes what happened there.
BLUE 30
“To the leather couch in front of the fireplace”,”on the couch”,”we lay quietly on the couch”;it refers to her thought in that erotic situation.
BLUE 31
“Put in my pocketbook” and “the doorway of his office”;there is a change of space and position of the notebook.
BLUE 32
“Blue 54 in San Jose”;the action takes place in San Jose.
BLUE 33
“Office door”;now we are back to the offices.
BLUE 34
“Ladies room of the restaurant”;now we are back to the ladies toilet in the restaurant,to the conversation between Uncle Roger and Jenny.
BLUE 35
“In the corridor”,where Jenny hears footsteps of two ladies(“two ladies entered the ladies room”);and in (“toilet stalls”)where they move.
BLUE 36
“I went into an adjacent stall”;Jenny changes her position.
BLUE 37
“In Haiti”;it refers to Uncle Roger, who was there.
BLUE 38
“The toilet”,”the toilet in my stall”;where Uncle Roger and Jenny still are.
BLUE 39
“San Francisco office”,”there”,”I don’t want to work in your office”;where Jenny will start to work.
BLUE 40
“That party in Woodside”;another flash back again,in the time;to the party in Woodside.
BLUE 41
“Woodside”,”at school”,”his car”,”California Coastline”;she remembers the days working for the Broadthrows.
BLUE 42
“The beach”;David suggests her to go to the beach with him.
BLUE 43
“The beach was empty”;they planned to go to the beach and have a picnic here.
BLUE 44
“A stream of red wine soaked the sand”;they are in the sand of the beach speaking and having lunch.
BLUE 45
“Go back East”;we have an spatial reference,because she,back to the reality,doesn’t know exactly what to do:going with David to the East or going to work to the offices in San Francisco.She has doubts.
BLUE 46
“Back to the table in the restaurant”;she has changed her position.
BLUE 47
We are back to the reality:signing “Happy birtday”to Tom and with the memories of Jenny,as normally.
This part of the history is mainly about dreams and memories.
(There are 75 blues but in the other 28 blues there aren’t any space marks or are there in the same place and have the same space marks than previously noted)
In “Terminals”,there aren’t many spatial references to focus on because the actions take place on the same place.This file is divided in a scene and 58 terms.
The actions takes place in the offices of a company,where Jenny works in San Francisco,speaking about the company and the people in.
The few spatial marks there are,they are found in Jenny’s dreams,memories,thaughts and nightmares;in the memories about Jeff and Uncle Roger.
They are mostly descriptions of places and things that take place in:San Francisco,where she works;El Cerrito Plaza Shopping Centre,one of her reports;lunch room,in the offices;Woodside;Boston,a present of Uncle Roger was a trip to here;Jenny’s apartment,dream with Jeff;Airport,her mother’s waiting for her;Airplane,she went by this with Uncle Roger to San Francisco.
http://peherjo.blogs.uv.es/2010/01/09/space-analysis/
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