The Driver's Seat story
Lise is a spinster, working in an accountancy firm somewhere in Northern Europe, probably Denmark. She has suffered years of illness; she behaves erratically and often confrontationally, and wears garish, provocative clothing. Lise travels to a South European city, probably Rome, ostensibly to meet her illusory boyfriend. She is eventually found murdered but had to an extent planned this murder herself.
5 total · 3 choice · 2 major
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| contemplating suicide | choice | Lise's self-arranged murder appears to be a pre-meditated suicide of sorts |
| is there a purpose to life | choice | We contemplate who or what if anything is behind what people do and things that happen. |
| mental illness | choice | Lise is clearly mad |
| pathological lying | major | Lise changes her story and contradicts her earlier statements many times to different people for no obvious reason but probably quite deliberately |
| sadomasochism | major | the killer is clearly a sadist and whatever Lise is, there was discussion about women being masochists |