Hannah
I really loved the concept of this - older women has nothing left to live for after losing her husband and adult son until she find a mouse in an old abandoned fish bowl. But several things went wrong for me with the execution. The old woman is extremely unlikable and difficult to follow. The plot escalates from the every day but meaningful to rather ridiculuous (hospital trips for mouse oxygen equipment) and the end was not satisfactory. Altogether, I felt that I didn't get much meaning or comfort from this.
I really loved the concept of this - older women has nothing left to live for after losing her husband and adult son until she find a mouse in an old abandoned fish bowl. But several things went wrong for me with the execution. The old woman is extremely unlikable and difficult to follow. The plot escalates from the every day but meaningful to rather ridiculuous (hospital trips for mouse oxygen equipment) and the end was not satisfactory. Altogether, I felt that I didn't get much meaning or comfort from this.