Summary
The short story” Trio For Four Voices” was written by Jane McLaughlin in 2018. It takes place on a hotel in Spain. We follow a first-person narrator who is also the main character.
The narrator unknowingly becomes a participant in a game, made by a family who are also residing in the hotel. She is deceived into believing that Amelia (the daughter) and her father will kill her mother and make it look like a suicide.
When the narrator tells Amelia’s “plan” to the mother, she runs away sobbing. After this encounter the narrator is met with the fury of Amelia’s angry father.
He is mad because the accusations on his daughter were “disgusting”. The narrator then apologizes. The next day the family give the narrator gifts and tell her it was all a joke.
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Uddrag
The short story” Trio For Four Voices” (2018) written by Jane McLaughlin. It takes place on a hotel in Spain, somewhere between Malaga and Arcos (l. 28).
The story is set in modern times because the narrator mentions the internet (l. 58). The story spans over a matter of a couple of days (l. 73 and 134).
A trio is a musical composition consisting of 3 voices. Therefore, it would not be sung by 4 voices. The title implies that something is out of place, someone who is involved should not be there.
The short story is narrated from the perspective of a first-person narrator. The narrator is also the main character, and all events are seen through her eyes (l. 3).
Although the gender of the narrator is unknown, it could very well be possible that it is a woman, since Amelia gifts her pink roses (l. 140-141), a stereotypical fitting gift for a woman.
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