Ok. So we've hashed through exposition, themes, feminism, and reflection on the way veterans are treated.
What I'd like to discuss, open up a bit, is do you think that Amber and Carla were right? We can speculate that the government got to them, but that's all cotton-fluff conspiracy so far as the end of the story is concerned. The main character accepted that they were right, that the method could be used on a grand scale to help more Elites out. But she did have doubts. Were they founded on her emotional instabilities, or was there something to them?
The Method itself, now that's a little sketchy. What exactly did you pick up was the way that things were run, besides "three strikes, you're out"? Could something like that work if there was somewhere else that they could go, once they were kicked out of the House? Would it just be an empty threat?
And what happens to the others, the ones who do get kicked out?
If the government ran an extensive program, they'd have to have answers to these and to the questions asked by the Boss, like "will they know when to bend the rules"?
I was caught by this story, though I was a bit let down by the ending. I wasn't expecting anything flashy, like a fight or a sudden epiphany, just something... more. A hint as to what the central message of the story was. Maybe I'm just a lazy listener. This made me want to hunt for deeper meaning, rather than just accepting what was there and moving on.