Alice Isn't Dead

Part 1, Chapter 4: The Factory by the Sea

Apr 19, 2016
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INSIGHT

Beauty Masking Industrial Decay

  • The narrator notes the coast's beauty conflicted with industrial blight, highlighting environmental and moral dissonance.
  • Building a factory at the high-tide line emphasizes exploitation and the unnatural placement of industry.
ANECDOTE

Strange Delivery At A Beachfront Factory

  • The narrator delivers labeled wooden pieces to a vast beachfront factory and meets a young worker named Jackie at the loading dock.
  • Jackie leads her inside, asks for help unloading on a conveyor, and then disappears, starting the unsettling series of encounters.
INSIGHT

Machines Outlast Their Makers

  • The factory feels lifeless despite heavy automation, suggesting people are absent while machines persist.
  • Empty scaffolding and relentless machinery imply production continues without human presence or oversight.
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