Lydia Davis “Television” is a short-short about her family’s nightly television routine. From channel surfing to games shows and tv movies, Davis’s television ritual is about the same as everyone else in the world. I liked that it is not over done and writery. Davis simply writes about what she sees and likes on TV, which make the story more relatable to me. Particularly the section about made for tv movies. Davis sounds like an “LMN” and “ABC Family” watching woman to me. The fast paced story plot with impossible circumstances and Disney-esque happy endings. I also liked her saying she wanted her life to be more like a movie. Mainly because I think in some instances everyone does it. I think there are those occasions where we would hope to look back and see the camera staring at us whether it be because we are searching for out 15 minutes of fame or because we are hoping somewhere along the lines, someone is going to yell cut and separate us from whatever awkward or miserable situation we may be in.
Davis “Television” is my first experience with short-short fiction so I really didn’t know what to expect. For me, it started off kind of slow. In the first section I really had no idea where she could possibly be going with it and didn’t think she was going to be able to establish any kind of point. For someone reason, the mentioning of her mother suddenly had me thinking she was telling the story at a young age until she mentioned her husband. I don’t know why I was slightly thrown off by that. The section about the game show and the boy’s parents seems irrelevant to me. I failed to see how this section helped the story any. Maybe she was trying to show how TV watchers as an audience pass judgment on people through their actions on TV. I did however, think the first and third sections were very well done and relatable. Perhaps Davis could have expounded on either of these two sections and created a bit more cohesion than was presented with the presence of the second section.
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