Post-9/11 Literature

I feel like this story relates to the terrorist attacks on 9/11 by discussing the effects of people's everyday lives through activities and interactions other than directly seeing the attacks or having lost a loved one. The paintings in the museum were about terrorists from a different place and time period, but they brought together all sorts of oridinary people who all have in common the fact that they are living in a post-terrorist city. The interaction at the museum between the man and the woman displayed the aftermath of the attacks on everyone's personal lives. The two were brought together through the paintings, but felt a strange connection through their recent loss of a job, and a strange feeling of loneliness. The woman described the paintings as having a sense of hopelessness, and this was also relfected towards the characters. Both felt somewhat obligated to act a certain way towards eachother with no real sense of direction, and blindly interacting due to thier own feelings of hopelessness and uncerainty of how to go on with thier lives in this post-9/11 world. Both of te characters were trying to fill a void which was taken away from them after the attacks- whether it be thier jobs or people they knew. The paintings were sort of a realization that the world does go on after horrible things, but the memory of it will always exist, it is just a matter of coping with it and finding your place in a world of fear and turnmoil.