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Narrator: The narrator is a first person narrator, since he uses first person pronouns and refers to his own story, which makes him an autodiegetic narrator. He is also an ulterior narrator. Narrative Modes: When Leo said "We just sat there, looking at the clouds in silence, listening to the cabs and the barking of a couple of dogs passing by.", there is only a report of action narrative mode, since it includes only a literal description of the events. Representation of consciousness: The story is an Interior Monologue, since he is writing to himself. Time: The story has an anachronological order, because it requires flashbacks. Like it starts in the ending, it begins In ultimas res. There is a summary when he says "As I walked by the stores I could only think about Mark and how I could not cope with him, about how he was so basic in life and didn’t actually care", since the story time is longer than the discourse time. Prose fiction subgenres: The short story is an Epistolary fiction.