All Comments on 'The Brass Statuettes Ch. 02'

Gloria and Alvin worry me. Alvin does not sound like a CEO of big company. Perhaps if we knew a bit more about why he is in the position we could appreciate his role. Gloria sounds like the original amoral heavy. Basically I am trembling in my boots about what these two are going to do to Trudy and Frank. If Trudy and Frank did not sound so competent I am afraid that I would be unable to continue reading the series!

Well AutumnWriter, like bruce22, I am quite apprehensive of the effects on Frank and Trudy of Gloria and the other "Brass Statuettes"! Their vast experience of things amoral could prove to be too overpowering for Trudy to handle and she could, quite easily, fall under their influences. The next chapter at your very earliest please. All the best for the New Year! Pete.

I seem to have faith in Trudy's innate, moral strength. from the first part of the story, to this serial, Truday as a character has been built as impeccable as solid titanium. <p>

She seems to have goals in mind, even from when she was much younger. <p>

To me, the "obvious height difference" (the author seems to want to say Frank is probably a couple good inches shorter than Trudy) was/is a metaphor of some inexplicable type, for Trudy's true "bigness," "big-hearted-self"... As a person, she is comfortable, for the most part (I mean, who is truly confident in themselves, in all respect?, no one!), with herself, with herself... she didn't care what her parents say, what others say, about the "mis-matched" between her and Frank, the man who loved her and the man whom she loved, more than any other... <p>

Normally, women are very insecure, on one way. For example, they can not stand it and they feel embarrassed if a shorter man ask them. They seem to think, even if they are 5 feet or 5-5, that the man who asks them MUST 5-9 to 6-5. <p>

But men, most men, also feel inferior in some ways, too. Because of the stereotypes, they usually don't ask taller women, because the chances of beng turned down is much higher, because most women are not only physically much taller, like Trudy here, mentally they are also small, so they feel they NEED to, they MUST have someone much much taller than they, to be paired up with....for compensation of some inexplicability. <p>

anyway, Trudy and Frank seem to have the ideal life partnership that the superficialities of aging and unfaithful sex objects like Gloria and the much younger Brenda, et al. simply make it [said partnership] more pronounced, more obvious, to themselves and to those around them... <p>

if any thing, I actually expect Juana to prepare to resign from Alvin and Gloria's employment, with something like this: <p>

"Senor Alvin [it should really be Senor Warner, really, but I think Juana likely prefers to formally adress Alvin as Senor Alvin], I will resign from this employment I love. You are a man I respect too much to be able to continue working here. You treat me and my husband with respect, you treat your wife and others --- people like your associates and colleagues, from Senor Frank to others --- with respect and professionalism..." <p>

"But what I have seen what's going on around here, when you're off working hard, to make this life possible --- what I've seen troubles my conscience too much... because I feel like I must be discrete and professional, and I have been, but the things senora Warner does,,, when you travel out of town,,, it's too much for me to keep quiet... because doing that I feel like I am betraying you, a good man who gets up everyday to help build a company...to give wealth and prosperity to not only his family but his community and the world... <p>

"I just cannot continue to feel like I am deeply betraying you for not telling you what the senora has been doing, especially when she does it INSIDE this house of yours, in the various rooms, including yours, which I want to think must be sacred in some ways, as a sanctuary, to you, no?" <p>

I can't judge the author, but I would predict that happen, rather than idiots and whores like Gloria and Brenda leading willowy Truday astray, after all these years of being a moral compass to her beloved and trusted and trusting husband Frank.... <p>

The "proloque" is too vaque, so it could apply to most of the powerful men characters in this story; but it does not seem to fit Frank and Truday, since they have been married for a long time, with two grown children, and she is certainly no "trophe wife".... Indeed, again, Trudy was/is the reason why Frank is as successful, and happy, as he is: she is the rock as well as the compass which steer their ship, from the most dangerous waters (when they were young) to these calmer waters, when they can look at each other and know DESPITE her parents, despite society's belittling, they were solid people who knew how much the other is worth to their sacred union and life partnership. <p>

I may be way off in my interpretation, but that's what I sense so far, despite the tiltilations the AUTHOR had the aging whorish Gloria and the common naive, young slut-like Brenda characters are trying to work on.... especially where the willowy and upstanding Trudy character's concerned....

I am finding the way you have written Trudy to be very captivating. She is distant and alluring. I want to get to know her more.