Talk:Humannequin/@comment-3508932-20140305035316

It was fantastic. A great metaphor in a twisted and surreal story. I'm not exactly sure what you intended for the meaning but I'll go ahead and give my interpretation.

It seems to me that people are upset that the protagonist is a bit unrealistic and empty, but I believe this was intentional. The concept of an entire town being replaced by mannequins is terrifying in context, but not necessarily in implementation. What is scary is how empty our lives reall are. Stories are just windows into the lives of people. Just like how we look through windows at mannequins in department stores.

I feel that everything you wrote was relevant. The paragraph about the wrinkles were there to emphasize how the mannequins were exact replicas of the people affected. The paragraph about the scrapbook represents how monotonous everyone's life is when compared to one another. We are all humans and we will all most likely live out the same lives and never be any different from one another. This is what makes us Humannequins.

This could perhaps be the vision behind Gustav's art at the very end.

9/10