Charmaine Post 3

In Murakami's "Barn Burning," I found myself interpreting the burned barns as murdered women, much like many others expressed during class on Monday. When the female character's boyfriend talked about burning a barn very close to the narrator, I interpreted it a bit different from how someone had mentioned in class. While it can be interpreted as the man "burning a barn" near the narrator's home, I did not take it as literally. I thought he meant he would murder someone who was close relationship-wise to the narrator. In this case, the female character was rather close to the narrator in a way, at least in her perspective. She asked the narrator to pick her up from the airport, spent a bit of time with him after her return, introduced her boyfriend, etc. The boyfriend said he only burned barns that nobody would exactly notice were missing, something people could easily pass over. And in the past, the man had never told anyone about him burning barns before.
Maybe the girl was someone people would not have missed, or someone people wouldn't have noticed had gone missing. However, the narrator definitely noticed, and because the boyfriend had told the narrator about his "barn burning" and that he would "burn" something close to the narrator, it's as if the man wanted the narrator to know that he purposely chose to burn this particular barn and to be aware of it happening. But we don't really know if the narrator eventually comes to the conclusion that the burning is actually murdering.