Three Letters and a FootnoteSummary:Basically the story begins with a twenty year old woman writing the editor of a magazine. Sheenclosesa story about her commute to work on a street car (the setting for the story has not been given but based on the text and the life of the author I am guessing it is meant to be seen as Buenos Aires, Argentina or Montevideo, Uruguay.) The woman tells the editor she wants him to publish the story but change the author to himself as people will not believe a woman could have written it. It is about her experiences over the last five years riding the street car to work. It is really all about how she sizes up the men who ride the street car in terms of their interest in her. There are special commuter train cars for women here in Manila (and elsewhere) for women only because of "train perverts" who use the crowded conditions to press up against women and I guess this is not a new thing based on this story.

Quiroga does a good job projecting the thoughts of the young female narrator as she described her five years twice a day rides on the street cars, packed with mostly men. There is a kind of interesting surprise twist to the story but it is just incidental to the pleasure of the story.