• ” similarly focuses on the player’s transition from a front-stage fiction to a back-stage truth that demonstrates the fallacy of the previous environment. It is an interesting read. Johnson sees GLaDOS as an institution that seeks to maintain its hierarchical rule over the player through language. All institutions have a public face and a private face and GLaDOS is no different. ↩

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