The Average American Male: analyse af temaer

The self-absorbed narrator in The Average American Male (2007) constantly looks and think about sex, but he seems terrified about the prospect of love. The author Chad Kultgen has made the novel about an unnamed narrator’s male inner. He is engaged with a girl named Casey but he and his fiancé doesn’t really agree on what a relationship is about. The narrator drowns in Casey’s and Casey’s mother’s decisions about what he can and cannot do, so in the end, he unexpectedly tells Casey’s and her mother that he doesn’t want to get married and then he leaves. Some of the themes in the novel is sex, love and oppression

The narrator is oppressed by his fiancé Casey, and tries as far as possible to avoid conflicts with her. “I let her turn of my music without any rebuttal” (page 133, line 25). Though he wants to listen to that type of music himself, he lets Casey decide what he has to do and he turns off the music without any rebuttal, so he is avoiding the confrontation with her. He also says “I want her to shut up. I say, “Okay” (line 47 page 134) that really indicates that he is under pressuring his own feelings also. At the end of the novel, it seems like the narrator tries to provoke Casey because of all the feelings he just has under pressured when Casey has decided what he could and couldn’t do. “I order the plate of scrambled eggs with nothing else in it that Casey has forbidden me to get” It´s clear to see that the narrator finally step up to his girlfriend, and overrules her commands by doing the opposite of her orders