Passing Wind by Lydia Davis is a piece about the pressures and unattainable expectations of dating. The subject matter is a tad peculiar due to the fact that the writing is about flatulence. The setting is a man, women and dog all together in the same space, and that is all that Davis provides us. The only thing else the reader knows is that the women smells a fart and is panicking because she does not know how to handle the situation. She does not know whether to confront the situation to defuse it immediately or just act like nothing happened. The reader has to assume everything else about the character's relationship and situation. Davis does an amazing job of using a syntactical style that creates a definite mood and tone for the writing. The writing starts out very choppy and flows into long drawn out thoughts and accusations. As the sentences begin to become more complex and draw out so does the uncomfortable situation between the man and women in the writing. The growing complicated sentence structure leads the reader to believe that the narrator is becoming stressed out and more uncomfortable. For example, the first sentence of the writing is "She didn't know if it was him or the dog  (Davis 58). The sentence is short, sweet and to the point. Now, the last sentence of the writing is "That was the only thing she could think of ”the dog would fart again, if it was the dog, and then she would simply apologize for the dog, whether or not it was the dog, and that would relieve him of his embarrassment, if it was him  (Davis 59).   The last sentence of the piece is clearly different than the first sentence. In the last sentence, she even goes as far to coming up with a solution to the problem of the mystery farter, but then immediately contradicts herself by saying "if it was him.  I found this writing very easy to relate to. It really speaks to the fact that first encounters with people of the opposite sex can really put p