I think everyone who read this story for the first time felt a little bit confused about the real meaning of this vague conversation between the American man and the girl called Jig. However, although I didn’t understand the topic of discussion (it was about an operation but what operation?), I felt that emotional tone while the two people exchanged, and that important decision that has to be made and that could change everything in their life. I think that the author gave us carte blanche with this ambiguity to interpret this important change in our own way, no matter how our imagination want it to be. That was the real beauty in this three pages story.
“The dialog is all we have, and it’s all we need” wrote the person who recommended the book
“I have tried to eliminate everything unnecessary to conveying experience to the reader so that after he or she has read something it will become a part of his or her experience and seem actually to have happened.