Missing Women By Spence Summary

“Missing Women” “Missing Women” by. June Spence is told from the perspective of a town where three women, a mother, her daughter, and her daughter’s friend. They left everything purses, cars, and even their medicine. The next door neighbors cleaned up the mess. The entire town has its own idea of what happened to the three girls. Some speculate that they ran away for their own reasons, others suggest who may have kidnapped them. The story is best told from the town’s perspective, because it creates more suspense. If this story was written from the cleaning neighbor’s point of view the story would be completely different. The cleaning neighbors would have left out vital parts of the story. They wouldn’t have thought it was important to include that they cleaned up the mess, or maybe even that they were once considered suspects. The town emphasizes their astonishment with the friends, “We’re aghast at all the friends who tidied up. No alarm in broken glass?” (Spence 255). If the cleaners would have written this, they evidently wouldn’t have found this information vital enough to note.

We would know exactly what happened, and there would be no reason to continue reading the story. The girls would be able to say exactly who did it, what happened, and where they were. The reader wouldn’t have anything at all to wonder about. The girls would have no idea what was going on around town. The writer comments on the town’s actions, “Still church attendance remains up. Moonlight strolls are kept to a minimum. Locksmiths can’t install deadbolts quickly enough.” (Spence 259). If the girls wrote the story they wouldn’t have known these events were