No One's a Mystery - by: Elizabeth Tallent

1. The "five-year diary with a latch and a little key" that Jack presents to the narrator functions symbolically in the story because the things that the narrator will write in there are a secret for only her to see like their relationship. Jack's affair is kept a secret from his wife with an latch and little key that only Jack and the narrator know about.

2. We know that Jack is married and it sounds like his wife doesn't know that Jack is having an affair. Jack's life with his wife sounds very predictable, he knows that he's going to get meatloaf for dinner, he knows that she won't turn around and look in her rearview mirror. Jack sounds like he's bored and has too much time on his hands.

3. Jack doesn't see himself in the girls life in the future, they will no longer be having an affair in a year. The girl loves Jack and wants to marry him despite the fact that he's married because she talks about writing in her journal that they are going to have multiple kids together and have a happy future together.

4. I don't the think the narrator wants to know the truth. She is having an affair with a married man who makes it sound like they don't have a future together and has to keep their relationship a secret from the world, I think that she already knows the truth and is in denial.

5. The title of the story is " No One's a Mystery" and I think it is ironic for this story. Thier relationship is a mystery, the individuals in the story are mysteries. Nothing is certain it's a mystery.