But her imagination is given full rein, especially in the matter of gender. For a writer who makes her lesbianism very clear, this is probably appropriate. But the reader may initially be confused by the sudden change of sex of the narrator who tells most of these stories. Virginia Woolf's Orlando could well be the narrator's role-model, but there is sometimes a personality change as well. Winterson plays with sex and gender, as she plays with time, perception and myth.
Nothing is fixed.
Her 'answers' are a paean to sex. A celebration of luxurious physical eroticism. She plays with the prurient curiosity of the questioner but only the pedantic would repeat the questions. In a very different way the story, 'Newton', plays with social conventions. Their laws of motion are determined.