"Sad as She" written by Juan Carlos Onetti.

A Life Forsaken
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 t…