The short begins with Caroline sitting in her chair, as she does every morning. She is obviously in a depressive state, shown through her expression and the voiceover- “It’s on days like these when I miss him the most, when the house is empty and it’s quiet”- the reason for her depression is revealed. Her mood varies throughout the plot, her voice, the look of the pictures and tone all representative of this.
The plot follows her as she recalls when Jim died, has a flashback, makes a cup of tea, has a flashback of being in Ireland, looks through photo albums, before going back to her chair. Throughout, the voice over gives away why she is in the situation she is in, alludes to depression that even she is unaware of, and presents her constant inner battle between action and inaction, resulting in the latter.
Caroline is both a protagonist and antagonist, depending on her state of mind. Protagonist and antagonist are, of course, old Greek characters and so do not really fit into any modern Media Theory. The closest, however is Goffman’s Character Theory, with Caroline as the protagonist and deuteragonist (derived, of course, from Aeschylus’s plays with the introduction of a second character).
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