In “Miniature Man,” Carrie Brown writes the story of Gregorio, a young man who lives in Spain and who is dedicated to the creation of his own museum. The story is kind of long for a short story but is detailed and complex. There are multiple characters, and they are all characterized very differently: Carlos for being a little bit hard to approach, Celeste for being an attentive woman, the narrator for being the doctor of the family but also the person from whom the others ask advice, and Gregorio for being the main character who remains mysterious until the very end.
It is interesting to see the point of view as it is a third person but for once it is through another character present in the story that we see the actions and that we get to discover another character. Also, the descriptions are almost constantly present but not suffocating. Instead of understanding the story throughout statements and narrative sentences, we learn a lot through descriptions and especially of the movements. This text is focused on the senses: we see Gregorio’s hand; we feel the movements of the hands of Carlos and Celeste in the final scene; we hear the sounds of the voices in the video.
The most interesting part to me was the fact that thanks to this writing that is sensual, we get to feel the passion of Gregorio even without knowing, for most of the story, what is inside of his museum. We understand what he sacrificed for that — the scene of his hands on the glass at the beginning is explicit — and then through the descriptions and also through the cautious attitude of the narrator towards him, we understand the importance this passion has in his life.