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You’re in your late 20’s or early 30’s. Now imagine the life you have with your partner summarized in tiny bursts of sentences from today to a point 30 or 40 years in the future. Got it? Can’t picture it? Well, if you can’t visualize that concept, don’t worry; instead, read “Here We Aren’t, So Quickly” by Jonathan Safran Foer.
The starts out in the first person for the first paragraph and then moves to the second person in the second paragraph. The you in the story being the narrator’s girlfriend/wife. After these first paragraphs the story then alternates voices or perspective every few sentences. At times, this switching becomes fatiguing, but in a story that is two pages long, it works. We watch as these people age, grow closer, and change. Throughout the process, their fears, anxieties and idiosyncrasies are laid out for the reader to peruse, like a yard sale of emotion.
What I like about this story is that it tries to do something new. Whether or not it’s successful is up to the reader. One thing I think about is does the story stay with me? “Here We Aren’t, So Quickly” may not fit into a neat category, but it stays with the reader long after closing the pages. For that reason, it’s a success.
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