Analyse af Stephen Kings 'The Man who Loved Flowers'

We all have a fear of losing someone or something, that we have a deep love for. It is the fear of not knowing what to do or how to comprehend it. We all react differently, some people talk about it, some bottle it up and others let their ID control them and act on their own pleasure to cope, such a character is seen in Stephen King's short story "The Man who Loved Flowers"."

In the short story “The man who loved flowers,” Stephen King uses an omniscient third-person narrator. As we see both a mirror of society and a mirror of the human psyche in seen in the short story. a mirror of society is that the short story plays into the fear of being a young woman and being outside alone at night and getting killed by a man and this fear stands for the fact that women got killed for rejecting him by handing back the flowers “'I brought you flowers,' he said in a happy relief, and handed the paper spill to her. She looked at them for a moment, smiled - and handed them back.” Today we see a lot of men choosing violence when getting rejected. That’s why a lot of women are cautious when talking to men. a mirror of the human psyche plays out when the young man starts brutally killing the young woman, it appeals to the reader as it shows us how far the sensible minds can turn radical in a split second.