The story here is an interesting take on a person who I admittedly have viewed as a very bland and uninteresting individual until I read the article. It's interesting in contrast to the photo shoot at the top of the article as the pictures are sexual and demonstrate the ideas I had for her, but then the article blows these preconceived notions out of the water. But what I want to focus on is the third half of the article and the kicker.
After the beginning of the article sets up the idea of the horse lesson, it leaves this image behind in favor of a follow-up interview in a diner the next day. The story could have ended here, with Fox talking about her bisexual nature, but the writer decides to return to the horse riding lessons. It begins by telling us she wasn't able to handle Bandit right at the start, having to get tethered to the rider's horse, but she overcomes it as they scale the mountain, and soon is able to do things on their own. In the end, we're are told she manages to overcome her fear to the point where she can trot off with the horse on her own, with an excited scream.
This is important in that its placed at the end, and it is specifically chosen to be the end, since the story is not linear chronologically. The author wanted us to feel impacted by the horse lesson, yet still wanted to tell us about the second interview. So in order to convey what he wanted, he broke the chronology and tried to deliver the most powerful kicker he could manage. And here I think he succeeds. He uses the kicker to show off the strength of the person he is interviewing, insinuating that she could overcome her fear of complicated roles the way she overcame her fear of riding horses. He doesn't end on a quote, but instead an image that reinforces this idea, and it is arguably a stronger piece because of it.
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