I don't feel that at this point I have anything more to work on. Maybe I could have included the music more in my story but seeing that it was short story it was hard for me to find any parts that I could mention it without breaking the rhythm of my story. As a writer I learned that peer editing is very important. It's important to have many people read your work because everyone can always find a piece missing that could make your writing better. I also learned that a lot goes behind writing a story and one draft is never sufficient.
The theme of my story is delusion. The protagonist feels like a single woman is sufficient to fill the void of all the things he gave up. He also thinks that not bettering himself is the best way to go, and he starts to beat himself up while Penny is moving on. A technique I used to show this is internal conflict. Because at the end he refuses to move on and wallows in self pity as he reads the newspaper article.
