Have you ever just had enough? Have you ever spiraled completely, totally and incomprehensively into a state of apathy? Into a resigned conniption? The truth is that we all have, but very few are able to take it as far as the woman does in "Sad as She." Onetti uses the woman as a representation of the emotional limits that we as a human race all have. Everybody has a "boiling point" though many people don't realize how or why they arrive at theirs. Irrational actions are callously disregarded and the greater concerns for other people are ignored when somebody has reached their limit. Onetti gives us a "play by play" of how people's rationalities and common sense begin to deteriorate in relation to the events that take place around them. "Nevertheless, each blow, each humiliation, each penance and joy plunged her deeper into the fullness and sweatiness of summer, into the culmination that could only continue as a decline." (Pg. 45).…
