Analyse af 'The man who hugged women'

This short story shows how relationships can develop by realizing what you need to work with individually. Being brave enough to take care of your own problems and take responsibility for your own happiness.

This story is written in third-person limited narrator. So we don’t hear anyone’s thoughts except for Freya’s, so that why it’s limited narrator.

We hear about this girl named Freya who is married to her husband, Mukesh. They have a daughter named Rita who is studying in mediocre university. Freya is a very ordinary woman in her mid-thirties. When we read the story we get the impression that she has it all – nice family, good friends etc. You know, just living a good-normal life. But a part from that we also get the impression that she is the opposite of spontaneous. She have a good friend named Pearl who she sort of look up to. Even though she might not admit it she really wants to be more like her – spontaneous, braver, less serious, more open minded – so Freya envies Pearl a little. In the story we hear about Perl wanting to visit a guru. At first Freya thinks it’s a crazy silly idea, but when she thinks more and more about it, she actually grows fond of it a bit more. Again she gets a little jealous because she wouldn’t have thought about it herself.