Finding your patch in life can be difficult. What do you want to be and what do you have the opportunities to become? Growing up and discovering where you belong can be a big deal for a lot of young adults. We can see that in Bobby Nayyar’s short story “Hollywood”. The short story was published in 2010 in the anthology London/33 boroughs shorts.
The short story is written in first person narrator. The narrator is the freshly graduated young man named Tarsem Singh, who lives in London with his Middle-East mother and father. In the beginning of the short story Tarsem is unemployed and goes to the Job Centre Plus on Mayes Road every other Tuesday. Tarsem has been unemployed for almost twelve months and dos not seem happy about it at all “…I would wake with an uneasy feeling in my stomach, for I – Tarsem Singh – am one of the three million unemployed in this fair green land.” (p.1 ll. 10-12) He describe the feeling of waking up unemployed as an “uneasy feeling”, with shows us that he is not happy about where he is in his life at the moment.
Tarsem is an Asian looking boy, as he describes himself. “I had that peculiar Asian male trait: thin legs and arms with a rounded belly, a bit like a frog.” (p. 2 ll. 50-51)
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