more mouthwashing spoilers yapping but i KNOW the reason why anya doesnt get to be a big blatant (human) direct part of jimmy's storytelling is bc he doesnt respect her as a human being, being the unreliable narrator he is, but i just saw someone say polle at the end was perhaps another way to represent anya all along (along with being the womb/horse centipede. its horses all the way down), and fuuuuuck. yeah actually that makes perfect sense. ok tiny bit of catharsis she got to snap at him for the first time during his mental breakdown yippee. bro stop apologizing to curly say sorry to HER 🪓
hope you don't mind an addition onto this!! i've been thinking about that point a lot, articulating my thoughts on it clearly is bit hard but i want to try
for the majority of the story Polle has no dialogue, in the game "dialogue" is in text boxes with names and "noise" doesn't have a dialogue box but might be picked up in the in-game subtitles, like the cartoons dialogues are "noise". For most of the game Polle only makes "noise" but in that last scene Polle has a dialogue box- and the text is blue. Just like Anya's text is. I think this could be interpreted that way. Maybe not directly- i don't think Anya specifically is represented by a horse? but i think it's emblematic of how Jimmy doesn't see her as a full person.
This is an amazing analysis and I'd like to add a small bit as well.
This game seems to have everything interconnected. Everything seems intentional to build the story, the characters, and the situation.
So the one line to me that really sinks the idea that Polle is meant to represent Anya is the seemingly joking fact that Jimmy is "sexually attracted to cartoon horses."
It's a small line, said by Anya and repeated by Curly. The fact this was said twice, and brought up Anya, makes me think this wasn't just some throwaway joke to show Curly and Jimmy's relationship.
She is a representation of Pony Express in his eyes, and he doesn't just see her as not a human.
She is the cartoon horse to him.