![]() The narrator volunteers to help a dying old lady named Mrs. The strange futuristic setting is simply an interesting backdrop that doesn't really factor into the story's core. Saunders chooses to focus instead on the grieving process of the main character who lost his wife. The specifics of how this futuristic process works are not explained in detail because that is not what Saunders thinks is important. People pay to enter a virtual reality in a process that involves treadmills and headsets. In this case the strange company's business is interactive personal holography. Saunders uses this premise so much because its easy for people reading to relate to it since pretty much everyone has worked a job they didn't like. ![]() ![]() Like most of the stories in this collection, this story focuses on someone who hates their job working a strange company. Schwartz" which is the fifth story in the collection CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. ![]() Today I am writing about one of George Saunders' lesser known stories "Offloading for Mrs. ![]()
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