Analysis Of No One's A Mystery

In the Elizabeth Tallent’s story “No One’s a Mystery,” it talks about how a naive eighteen year old girl falls in love with a cynical man named Jack who is only interested in sexual play with the girl. Jack has a wife but he belittles her with comments towards the narrator. Jack is having an affair with the narrator and he does not show any care in his actions. Jack sees the narrator as a child in his eyes and he easily manipulates her for his own satisfaction. The narrator is oblivious to Jack’s intentions due to her fixation of her imagined future with him. In the story, Jack can be seen as realistic and cynical while as the girl can be seen as inexperienced. This story can be seen as how Jack sees the narrator as a kid, the narrator’s blindness of what’s happening and the narrator’s future versus Jack’s future.
The story begins with Jack giving the narrator a five year diary. The narrator sees how Jack was “scratching at the lock” where he came to the conclusion that it “didn’t want to work.” Later on, Jack begins to see his wife in her Cadillac and then begins to shove the narrator “onto the dirty floor” of the pickup truck. Jack then begins to make comments about his wife’s habits and how

The narrator questions his assurance of how he says how he knows his wife’s actions as well as how he “knows what you’ll be writing in that diary.” The narrator then questions him how he knows what she will write and then he says how in a year she will write “I wonder what I really saw in Jack.” The narrator then disagrees with him and says how in a year she will write “Jack should be home any minute.” In the narrator’s perspective, she imagines that she will spend her life with Jack based on what she says she will write in her diary for the future. Afterwards, Jack says how he likes her diary entry but he “believes his,” showing how he knows what’s going to happen in the