Imitation workshop

The characters in Imitation are interesting, and yet true characters, and there is a great deal of mystery surrounding them. How exactly they met, what Andrew did to get his money, what he thought of the woman, are questions that are never answered in the story and I think that works for this. It comes across to me like the woman is inexperienced in the world and does not really know how to survive, so it makes sense she would go back to a man’s place that she did not know and allow him to paint her naked when he didn’t even know her name. So the audience shouldn’t know too much information because our protagonist does not know that much either.

One thing I noticed is that because there is a great deal of dialogue the story resembles a play. I’m not saying that’s bad, I love reading plays myself, but if you wanted to stay clear of that medium you might want to think about breaking up the dialogue with more action or description. She asks, “We’re taking off now?” but what is she thinking? Doing? What is her body language saying, or his body language? This could make the image of the story more complete and rely less on dialogue.