Power

Through the third person narrator's closeness to Melania's distinct psyche, the author explores the ways how the individual's desire for power and autonomy might dictate her sense of self and understanding of the world around her. In the case of the main character, Melania Trump, agency and authority are elusive. Indeed, Melania's reality in the narrative present is dictated by her husband's potential rise to political power. Melania's external and internal terrains are therefore dependent on her husband's success or failure in his campaign. In order to seize some sense of control over her life, Melania makes "small efforts" to do "little things" that might grant her a sense of personal accomplishment (1). At the story's start, she decides not only to order the floral arrangements herself, instead of relying on Donald, but to use a different florist, and to pay with her own money. While these...