Fiction Packet 3 Response

The short story from Fiction Packet 3 that I focused on was The Falling Girl by Dino Buzzati. The story is about a girl named Marta going through life rather quickly in a figurative sense. Literally, it is written that she jumps off the top of a very tall building to her death. She starts the story a 19 year old girl, but it ends with her an old woman. It is just a metaphor for the passing of life, missed opportunities and so on. Marta herself lives her life more on the quiet side, and she dies of old age. Her death doesn't have any impact on people as she wasn't all that important. She hits the ground, but no thud is heard by anyone. Marta definitely did not want her life to turn out this way. She's frightened and looks back on her life with regrets. The story is written with a lot of creatively detailed imagery; "...the city became a sweet abyss burning with pulsating lights.".