"The Scarlatti Tilt" by Richard BrautiganAnalyze the following variations of lines from “The Scarlatti Tilt.” What simple variances of word choice made the largest impact? Why did you react the way you did? Please post your responses on your blog as Journal Entry #7.
ORIGINAL:
“It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who's learning to play the violin.” That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver. (from Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970)
Bank: The women and the man are couples. It is very difficult for the women and the man to live together in a small studio apartment in San Jose. The women is bored of the noisy sound of the violin and the man face, she decide to kill the man and got arrested.
Perth: The women and the man are either couples or neighbors living together. The women is fed up with the noisiness of the man or is in a bad mood or is troubled making her run out of temper and decides to kill the man.
VARIATION I:
“It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a white man who's learning to play the violin.” That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.
Bank: The white man got angry when he couldn’t find job so he start playing the violin for fun while staying at the apartment. The woman is tired and rage of the man not getting anything job, she ended up killing the man to release her anger.
Perth: The women might tell the man to reduce the noise level, but the man being arrogant and ignorant, making the woman mad and unable to withstand the man making her decide to kill him. Another possibility is that the man might say bad things about the women making her anger and lose control. The man provoke her anger.
VARIATION II
“It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a black man who's learning to play the violin.” That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.
Bank: The black man stole the violin and practice playing. The women is unsatisfied of the black man behavior and performance, she got mad and kill the black man.
Perth: The woman might be a racist or a latino hating on black people and so when she realizes that the noise pollution is coming from the black man, she got mad and acted without thinking because of the hatred she has towards black people.
VARIATION III:
“It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a woman who's learning to play the violin.” That's what he told the police when he handed them the empty revolver.
Bank: The man is mental and violent. He threatened the women badly, and because of he thinks that the women play the violin to distract him, he decided to kill the women.
Perth: I think that the man is short tempered because women are a weaker sex and with the man shooting the woman, it shows that the man is cruel and has no sympathy towards woman. He is violent and is a very bad man.
VARIATION IV:
“It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a child who's learning to play the violin.” That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.
Bank: I think that the child is very naughty while he playing the violin, and this is annoying to the women. She got tired of the noisiness of the child and his behavior, the solution to this is to kill the child.
Perth: This is disturbing, the child is just trying to learn an instrument. I think that the woman has a mental problem or is either crazy or psychotic because it is extremely wrong to have the will to kill or even hurt a child.
VARIATION V:
“It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a baby who cries all the time.” That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.
Bank: The women has a baby, however the father leave. She is depressed and doesn’t take care of the baby. The women is very mad and go insane, because of the hatred she has towards the father she killed the baby in revenge.
Perth: Again, this is even more disturbing because women should always take care of babies and find them cute. Women care for babies because they will have one in the future and especially killing her own baby is a sign of craziness and other mental problems. No one would dare hurt an innocent baby except the cold blooded people.
VARIATION VI:
“It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a baby who cries all the time.” That's what he told the police when he handed them the empty revolver.
Bank: The man is insane and violent, that’s why his wife leaves. She scared of the man going to rage on her so she leave without taking the baby. The man don’t know how to take care of the baby, and got tired of the baby that cries all the time, so he used the baby as a butt to tried out his new revolver.
Perth: This means that the man is violent and crazy just like the woman. It might not be his child because dads also love their kids, but maybe he has a problem with his wife so he put his anger on the baby. It could also be another person’s baby, maybe he did it because the crying pushed him to his limit or because he has a problem. There is no reason to hurt a baby.
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