A.) told (sung) from various viewpoints, like a modernist novel, or
B.) purposely blurry in its character relationships so as to make its themes more universal.
There's really no way to definitively decide exactly what's going on; if Pitchfork's correct and the patient is a child, how could she have had an abortion (as heard in "Bear")? And if she's the patient of the speaker (singer), how come he knew her before she got sick (as heard in "Two")? It's impossible to pinpoint specifics and better just to take in the emotions and themes of the album as a whole,in my opinion.
The album, to me, seems either
A.) told (sung) from various viewpoints, like a modernist novel, or
B.) purposely blurry in its character relationships so as to make its themes more universal.
There's really no way to definitively decide exactly what's going on; if Pitchfork's correct and the patient is a child, how could she have had an abortion (as heard in "Bear")? And if she's the patient of the speaker (singer), how come he knew her before she got sick (as heard in "Two")? It's impossible to pinpoint specifics and better just to take in the emotions and themes of the album as a whole,in my opinion.