Foreshadowing In How To Talk To Girls At Parties

The story of Vic and Enn in “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” written by Neil Gaiman can appear to be quite a mystery , but the author gives plenty of clues to what the true reality of that fateful night was. Towards the end of the story the boys run out of the party, one they were initially happy to attend, in a rush. I believe this happens because Vic thought he was sharing an intimate moment with another human until things escalated to the point that he discovered they were an extraterrestrial. There are several points in the story that bring me to this conclusion such as the girls at the party talking strangely in a way to imply they are almost non-human, points of foreshadowing from Vic early on in the story, and the girls saying that they were all tourists from an unspecified place. There are several instances where the girls of this story speak in strange ways but I will be mostly referencing the individual referred to as “Wain”. The first thing that raised my suspicions

. . They don’t come from another planet.” (Gaiman 215). I think this phrase was used deliberately by the author in order to foreshadow what happens that night as mentioned prior. I believe that this quote alone doesn’t mean much, but when put into the context of the rest of the story it holds a lot more weight. The slight hinting towards the girls being not from this world becomes a lot more obvious when this foreshadowing is noticed. Vic also makes it very clear that at the very least that without a doubt, none of the women are from the same area as Enn and him. This is revealed when he says “Don’t worry. They’re all tourists here anyway.” (Gaiman 219). After this is said, it is never made clear where any of them are tourists from and is left open ended. I believe that this was likely because all of the women in the party were