Power

The author crafts a fictional depiction of Harvey Weinstein's private life the day before he goes to trial, in order to explore the ways in which power might distort the individual's understanding of self. At the start of the short story, the narrator describes Harvey like any other human individual. He wakes in the early hours of the morning with his shirt "stuck to his back—night sweats, the pillow swampy, the sheets damp" (2). Before the reader has any indication of who Harvey's character is, the narrator shows him in a state of vulnerability and weakness. These descriptions mutate the more information the narrator provides about him. Indeed, over the course of the story, the narrator vacillates between descriptions of Harvey in his private thoughts or activities and those of his interactions with others. These scenes contrast one with another and gradually reveal the way Harvey...