What is life? What is the sense of it ? These questions and
similar to these are the
majority thought of this novel.
Everybody look at life in different way. He see more
positive or negative aspects of the way it is
functioned.
Veronica is a complicated person. From one side
others
could be envy that circumstances she lives in: she has
already finished her study, she has the parents who love
her
very much and a boyfriend, also she has not got any
problems. But from the other side, more subjective, when
she
wonders about herself - she does not know who is she.
Life is all about choosing. The girl goes in mind to
the
point that none of the decisions she has made trully was
not
something what she could really want. Every day life is
planed, schematic, sexless, sayig in one word - a
routine
taking away from the character very substential part of
her
view of the wold - its sense.
Analizying detail after detail from Weronika's short
exist the only salvation she see is in the pills for
sleep
which will finish hopeless life in her opinion.
Instead go to the heaven, she is placed in
psychiatric
hospital. There is a plenty of people who lost their
contact with reality to imaginated superworlds where they feel
secured. There are also the doctors and the nurses doing
their jobs with a little deviation. All institucion's
functioning is swaddled by absolutly silence.
Veronica who is seperated from outside world forgets
that there is something besides this lodging in which
she
has been shut for some time.
Subconsciously she starts to focused her attention
at
herself. Through the contact withe the entourage she
findes
her own ego. There is not any prohibition here so she
can do
whatever she has desire for. All days the person plays
the
piano.
The shy curiosity appears which weaks up with the
girl.
She becomes more open and she starts to like the featres
of
the character that she has found in herself. Men living
in
estabilishment also change their attitude to her; from
the
beginning they were very unkind for her. They became
more
goodwilled to her.
Determined
majority presents her compassion. There
is
not too much life left for Weronika.The doctor has
claimed
that she has got real serious problems with her heart.
Not to
much time left for her during she realised that she
wants to
live. She is going to catch every minute in her
lifetime.
Everything counts for her now.