They are each of them terrified of the other. Not of their punches, or the power behind them, but of what their look-a-like coworker represents. The older feeling as if the younger has been brought in to replace her at work. The younger, feeling as if the older is doing everything she can to destroy and dismiss. Neither is wrong in their assessment – and yet, each sees their own actions as only defending themselves against the other, and in that they are right too. they are two women turned against each other by the
For they are two women turned against each other by the cruelty of the corporate world – beating and battering each other – bloodying each other’s nose and mouth – blackening each other’s eyes – for decisions neither made, and a fate neither can stop.