“When a character or a story line arrives unbidden, when my initial intention gets hijacked by my subconscious—for me, that’s where the excitement lies,” Marisa Silver says, about her short story in this week’s issue.
” explores the relationship between a seventy-four-year-old widow and the seven-year-old boy who lives across the hall. How did the idea come to you?
Yeah, Evelyn is not an easy one! She is a sharp-edged, emotionally guarded woman. Even when her actions cause great friction, as they have with her youngest daughter, Paula, she’s unlikely to blame herself. In today’s parlance, we’d say that she has not “done a lot of work on herself.” She’d scoff at that idea! As she would at the notion of dwelling in your feelings. She would tell anyone who asked that she loves her daughters, and I think that’s true.
Part of my attempt to adhere to the angle of vision of my characters has very much to do with the nuts and bolts of the writing itself. If I maintain that connection, then my word choices, the rhythm of my sentences, and the over-all register or tone of the piece somehow bring clarity to a character without my having to do much explaining.
At one point in the story, Evelyn says, “Children know what’s what. Children and dogs.” I think that many of us have had the experience of holding a friend’s baby and feeling proud that the baby doesn’t cry, or of seeing a kid on the bus smile at us. A child’s intuitive acceptance feels like a kind of absolution. Evelyn needs some absolution.Scotty has no idea, at least none that he could verbalize.
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