David Eggers Vignette Response

Woman Waiting to Take a Photograph response

1) What is the time frame of this vignette?

Her day off from the publisher.

2) What does the text imply about photography and about photographers?

It is hard to make a living and that they are go-getters.

3) What is the writer’s attitude toward the woman? What words and phrases suggest that attitude?

A young woman who isn't well off. She is ambitious and has an eye for her passion, photography.

4) How does the writer’s repetition of the term “Go-Getters” function in the text?

The term “Go- Getters” is a underlying way to describe the woman. The name of the store seems to be an oxymoron considering its low life customers. 

5) How does the final sentence build on observed details?

It has the woman’s photographs from this scene, famous and shown to many people.

6) What new idea or surprise emerges in the final sentence?

By the woman documenting the demographic of people visiting the store, brings an awareness to the lower class. 

-Abigail Nilsson
Literature and Media Studies