Talk:My Baby/@comment-24821182-20140520044137/@comment-24821182-20140521170905

Maybe "unsettling" was the wrong word. It's just that near the ending (starting in the second last paragraph) he no longer attempts to cover up the fact that his wife is dead, and he even went out of his way to tell us that the ghost girl is some manifestation of his wife. I'm just surprised that, given all metaphors used thus far in the story, we suddenly get easy answers that leave little to the imagination.

Maybe it would have been better if it wasn't explicitly stated that the girl was his wife?

To use an example to illustrate what I'm trying to say, think of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odessey, and try to imagine what it would be like if we were directly told what happened to the astronaut in the end. In a film that for the most part conveyed its message through subtlety, it would be odd if we were given a straightforward explanation that killed the possibility of any individual interpretation.

Also, I totally fucked up in deciphering that tower metaphor, and I feel quite embarrassed for assuming the "people" were... well... never mind. Fortunately, I can use this error of mine to reinforce my point that the metaphors make it difficult to understand the story (I'm taking the path of the sore loser, as you can see).