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The Blue Suede Shoes short story is written by Florence Knapp in 2018, and was published in The Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2018.
Florence Knapp is a skillful sewer, plus she is a wonderful writer. She has written the very popular book “Flossie Teacakes’ Guide to English Paper Piercing”.
Florence Knapp is also working with her husband, to create and produce education apps for children. Florence Knapp’s short story Blue Suede Shoes is about Irina the protagonist who is stopping by a small coffee shop
but then sees her ex-boyfriend for the first time after three years. Irina is a very observing individual, we can see that in this quote “She takes in the redhead’s hair falling thickly down her back;
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Uddrag
The good times in this quote are probably why she stayed with him because it contrasted to the bad times. Irina’s conflict in the short story is seeing him again and opening up the wound again, from the memory of him.
She needed to see him again, because it helped her to forgive him, and move forward to a new chapter of her life. “She takes one last look at this elegant man, sitting with the lovely redhead, and wishes him well, hopes that he’s changed,” (line 120-122).
In this quote we get an understanding of how Irina is a forgiving person, we see it in the way she is able to hope the best for him, even though her ex-boyfriend has done a lot of bad things to her.
The short story is told in a third-person narrator's view. It is shown in the way the characters are referred to by their name, or as he or she.
The third-person narrator’s view is primarily from Irina’s perspective “Irina moves her head, breaking her gaze, attempting to shake the memory away.
How odd, she thinks, that those images can exist so vividly in her mind and yet this room in the coffee shop remains uncharged by them; no one turns to look, to stare at him” (line 106-109).
In this quote, we can see that the perspective is from Irina. The third-person narrator makes use of limited omniscient, in this quote with the way Irina thinks and sees what there is happening around her.
At the end of the short story the perspective is changed to the ex-boyfriends “Later, as they go to leave the cafe, he sees the spilled coffee and steps carefully around it, taking in the name on the fallen cup as he does.
Irina. His thoughts twist back to an ex-girlfriend. It must run in the name, he thinks, she was always too. Always breaking things and burning food.
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