The review for a story "Hope" by @princessmewmew from @mgaft1

I can probably express the points of this story in one phrase: “Hope is not measured by materialistic things – it’s a feeling that lives inside us or not.” In itself, this is not a very original statement and is popular philosophical stand and an established liberal view. One can perhaps argue and counter this view. Yet arguing con or pro is not a purpose of a review.

It is much more interesting to me how the author brought forward this point and utilizing an interesting compositional construct, which, for the lack of the better term, I would call mirroring.

The story starts from POV of a rich girl, who arrives at her Mercedes and meets a poor bum girl, who asks for or 5-dollar bill. The rich girl feels very companionate toward the bum girl. She gives her the money and pays attention to the expression in her eyes, the expression of hopelessness.
Then the story switches to the POV of a bum girl, briefly familiarizes the users with her circumstances and reenters the same scene as before. The scene from the rich girl and the bum girl meet, only now the author presented the same scene through the bum girl’s eyes.

Now the bum girl notices that the rich girl also has a hopeless expression in her eyes. The cause of her unhappiness is quite different, but the end result is the same.
Thus, in a way, the author as if putting the mirror between the two women, the mirror that reflects the same expression of hopelessness, generated by the entirely different circumstances. An interesting and unusual plot device. Kudos to the author.

Respectfully, @mgaft1.