The Falling Girl (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Dino Buzzati Traverso
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: After World War II
- Setting: A city on the Italian coast
- Principal Characters: Marta, Unnamed residents
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Class consciousness, Despair, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Accidents, Fantasy, Italy or Italians, Wealth, Joy or sorrow, Vanity, Night
- Locales: Italy
The Story
A nineteen-year-old girl named Marta falls from the top of a skyscraper that houses apartments and business offices; the story chronicles her slow-motion toppling from the roof toward the street.
Marta lets herself fall from the building after she watches the brilliance of the sunset over the city, which “provokes dreams of greatness and glory,” and after she sees that the city she lives in is filled with mansions, diamonds, parties, and affairs. She hopelessly lets herself fall, perhaps because she recognizes that she cannot achieve the greatness and glory...
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