On the other hand, maybe there is no Audrey. That could be an interpretation of the whole sleep lab scenario and the comment by ¿Randall? about the appointment at the end.
She seems confused about who she is, possibly suffering from some mental deterioration. The questions about Audrey, the marriage and Daddy lead me to an even darker impression. Randall's tediousness comes off as more of a criticism of Randall, potentially, by the dreaming Hope who is harboring the common animosity the sleeper has towards one attempting to awaken them.
Sipe's Saab early on, then, as the meeting with the sleep clinicians began, the surreal background, "the sound of a hand-held hammer. The thunderstorm in the beginning and Hope questioning if it was raining at the end seems relevant. I think you're correct that this was all Hope's dream. Robert Petkoff, who also narrated DFW's 'The Broom of the System', 'The Pale King', 'Girl with the Curious Hair', enunciates a Wallace sentence like it's his JOB.I'm similarly flummoxed, but enjoyably so. Anyway, these stories are quirky, stylized, experimental, and brilliant in their beauty and their suffering. It is a little spooky how some of the stories ("Mister Squishy" and "Another Pioneer") anticipate his last unfinished novel 'The Pale King' while "Good Old Neon" was hard to listen even though it has been almost four years since his suicide. 'Oblivion', like his earlier story collections ('Brief Interviews with Hideous Men' and 'Girl with Curious Hair') is one of those tortured works of fiction that both attract and repel me at the same time.
But, I've always been just a little unsettled (and occasionally freaked out) by his short stories. Wallace's nonfiction talent also hits me as evidence that the universe is not even slightly unfair. I have to be careful somedays to not fall-down and worship his novels. "What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant." Let me get my biases out in the open. Just 2 Fast & Huge & ALL Interconnected 4 Words
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