Being a doorframe seems like it would be a lot of fun. Get to stand there, watch things, but only have people stay under you when they're yelling to the outside, or there's an earthquake. In any case, the story Boys contains a door frame who witnesses the childhood, infancy, and coming of age, in and without a particular order.
I think similarly being able to monitor a life in these snap shots would be compelling but also tedious. How much can you really tell about someone by the way they enter a house? Isn't what happens once you've entered what really matters? The story would say no, but I would say yes. I prefer a chance to actually get to know someone, to see them through an action, instead of before and after. That way you can actually understand the way they work, instead of the way the did work, and the way they will work. A door frame is still a cool mechanism for a story, but we don't learn nearly as much as we can about how the people involved fundamentally change. Rather, we learn what has fundamentally changed about them.
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Mitch,
I thoroughly enjoyed your post. It was thought-provoking, real, and told in a humorous fashion. The simple idea of being a door frame is creative, and your thoughts held true to this ideal. Gosh, wouldn't it be interesting to tell Boys from the point of view of the door? Maybe it would be interesting to ask my door what s/he'd gathered from watching me all these years. But at any rate, I won't carry on with all this fantasizing. Basically, you did a good job on the blog post. Your perpective on being a door frame was refreshing.
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