In the Cafe by Cesar Aira

　　I don’t understand the theme of this story.
　　The plot is simple. A four-year-old girl gets works of origami made by customers, one after another, at a café while her mother is talking with her friend. The first origami is a boat, which soon comes apart while she is carrying it to her mother. The next one is a plane, which is followed by a doll, a hen, a clown, a coffee cup with a saucer, a museum, and a boat with Potemkin and Catherine the Great sailing between the banks where people are cheering, and a kangaroo and the joey, and Thinker. Finally when she is called by her mother and they are just leaving the café, when she is given a polyhedron. The writer describes the customers’ occupation and appearances, and discuss how they come to make origami elaborately, I say, too elaborately.
　　 Every origami is destroyed unintentionally by the girl. Does the story hint the destruction of the beautiful globe? Human beings are continuously destroying without paying any attention to God’s work.

A Singer's Romance by Willa Cather

　　A Singer’s Romance Willa Cather The story develops very well. The readers wonder how the relation between the “competent” opera singer, Frau Selma Schumann, and a the broad shouldered young man, Signorino will end. Will she have a romance with him? Why doesn’t he talk to her. Why is he always playing the role of a “shadow”?
　　   Everything is revealed at the end of the story. The Signorino was not seducing her nor did he like her. Actually the woman he loved was not the singer, but the 16-year-old singer’s servant. That’s why ‘Toinette persistently asked Madam whether she wanted to drink champagne. Actually, she wanted to go out to meet the man.
　　   The humor lies in the end when she breaks her determination to give up eating pastry and drinking champagne. The ending goes: “Then she ordered her breakfast—and a quart of champagne.