Woman Waiting to Take a Photograph Response
The time frame of the vignette
“Woman Waiting to Take a Photograph” is a matter of minutes, from the moment
the woman decided to take a photograph under the Go-Getters sign to the moment
she actively waited by the store with her camera in hand waiting for the
perfect opportunity to take her perfect photograph. Although the text describes
moments in the past, when the woman received her car, and the future, the
moment she envisions her photograph being displayed in a gallery and museum,
the timeframe in which the writer describes the woman physically sitting and
waiting to shoot her photograph is only a short while. The text implies that
photographers spend a lot of time and put a lot of thought into their
photographs in order to give them a deeper meaning, and in order for the
photograph to portray exactly what they want, they need to be patient and wait
for the perfect moment to take that photo. The writer’s attitude toward the
woman is that of a neutral one. The writer consistently refers to the woman as “the
woman” suggesting distance between the two, despite having enough knowledge
about her to know the story behind her car, and her motivations for why she was
sitting by a suspicious store. The writer uses repetition with the store name
“Go-Getters” in order to emphasize the irony behind the name of the store and
its customers. The final sentence shows
the hypocrisy of the woman, who is in fact, also using the underclass to boost
her own career as a photographer, despite the fact the photograph itself is only
profound because of its exploitation of the underclass.
