Analyse af 'She's the Bomb' af T. Coraghessan Boyle

Being young is confusing, it is simultaneous the best and the worst time of your life. It is difficult figuring out who you are, and the pressure about career choices is at its highest. Do your dreams correlate to your family’s wishes and expectations? It is stressful. In the short story “she’s the bomb” written in 2017 by T. Coraghessan deals with the anxiety that the main character deals with when she transitions from youth into adulthood.

She’s the bomb is told through a limited 3. person narrator. With the help of this narrator we get to see the teenage girl’s feelings, experiences and thoughts. We as an audience can see the reasoning Hailey has for her actions, and it gets easier to have sympathy for her. By choosing a 3. Person narrator the story is told more objectively, and we can get a more critical angle on Hailey’s actions.

The short story starts in medias res, this makes the story more realistic and less fairytale like.

“If we had a helicopter or, better yet, a drone, we could hover over Hailey Phegler’s shoulder at this juncture and watch her text, but we don’t, so we won’t. Instead, since fiction allows us to do this, we’ll go directly inside her head and attempt to assess the grinding awfulness of this moment” (page 1. l. 7-8).