Voicemail Critique

I think the interest is in the characters, which are hard to develop with one-sided conversations. It’s difficult to imagine the characters with what is given, but that is something you can work with: Is Anne a crazy stalker or is she lonely and misunderstood? Is Marcy stuck up or is she simply put off by Anne’s forwardness? It’s impossible for the reader to tell how Marcy and Anne met and whether there was any ambiguity in Marcy’s offer of a movie, and whether Marcy listened to the voicemails or ignored them.  Another interesting detail is in the voicemail messages they leave for callers—Marcy naturally seems like the sympathetic character (“Have a blessed day”), though just from the plot you’d assume otherwise. Both the characters are sympathetic, because they own up to faults, but its natural for a reader to favor one. In this case, though, it’s hard to choose. The details really add to the interpretation; it is mentioned that Anne took Marcy’s number from facebook which is usually a little suspicious and later she knows it from memory and has it on speed dial but Marcy was definitely harsh in her response. Marcy’s response through email is curious though, and seems like a bit of a cop out—why would one respond to texts and voicemails with an email? One thing that really sticks with me though is the line “I thought we had something” because that reads like a potential romantic relationship.