Critique of “S.O.S"

The prose in “S.O.S” is very honest. It doesn’t attempt to deceive you with literary tricks or madness. It is, suffice to say, refreshing and clean. Rather, it gives honest, fruitful, and ordered accounts of one man’s experience on an island. It just happens that this man’s mind has been split and he doesn’t realize it. The prose alludes to this possibility early in the text, as Peter, the second man, claims that he knows someone else is out there, but he never sees this other person. The text is somewhat cheapened, in my opinion, by the twist ending. The text would be more fulfilling if this were either omitted or made clear at the beginning of the text, so that the focus of the text was not on this unknown of ‘who is this strange bastard that keeps messing with my stuff?’ and more of a case-study on this one guy’s situation and his unraveling. The text echoes Fight Club and Memento as it plays with memory, memory loss, and personality disorder.