Summary

In Chapter IV, “Until Forever,” when the narrator first started writing, she “wrote on unbound and unlined A4 sheets of paper” her father would bring home from work (141). She remembers some of the feeling of writing at this time. However, many of her memories are hazy, as she and her brother “were not encouraged” to use the furniture which held the stationary supplies (142).

The narrator also “wrote in the back of school exercise books” (143). In one book, she began the story of a girl forced to stitch “her sisters’ preposterous gowns” (144). She was stuck in a room alone with this project. The image of the thread the girl used, inspired the narrator’s drawing of the face in the back of her book. At first, the face belonged to no one. Eventually, it acquired a particular “man’s likeness” (146).

The narrator...