Because of The Underdogs' use of 2nd perspective, with terminology such as, “You reach over the counter”, and “You take a deep breath”, it puts the reader in the same scene with Jake. She talks, and acts, as if she is talking to you- and the Underdog is a lived experience between both of you, not just her. It makes the whole project a lot more personal to the reader, and not just the author.

Jake, our protagonist, has unconfronted grief - meaning the traumatic events she’s experienced in her past have not found any resolutions, nor has she made any attempt to move past them. As far as she is concerned, her trauma doesn’t affect her daily life; she believes that though she’s never confronted her past, she is capable of living with it. This is polarizing to what the reader derives from Jake after meeting her; seeing instead a woman completely under the control of her trauma, to the point where she doesn’t even acknowledge it as the root cause of her depression. Leaving it to us, as both the reader and a witness to her stories, to help Jake.