Standing Heavy - Return to Sephora, Champs-Élysées Summary & Analysis

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Standing Heavy - Return to Sephora, Champs-Élysées Summary & Analysis

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Summary

This chapter is broken into several one-paragraph observations about the people of Sephora, the retail clothing store where Ossiri works as a guard. The observations state both facts (i.e. what someone is wearing or doing) and what the narrator thinks about it. They can be political or banal, drawing on both observations and internal thoughts.

The guards use the term 'revolutionary' to describe Tunisians in the shops, referencing the Jasmine Revolution's attempted spread throughout North Africa, which was largely unsuccessful in most countries

One of Ossiri's colleagues poses a theory: the further your seat is from a chair while you work, the less money you make. This theory contrasts the sedentary roles of CEOs who make millions while workers like Ossiri stand all day earning minimum wage. Ossiri increasingly subscribes to this belief, highlighting the disparity in earnings...

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