Analyse af novellen 'Live like a dog, alone'

Live like a dog alone is about a woman, who often went to the hospital to get her heart checked.

She takes a taxi, the taxi driver is from Kosovo and she thinks he is a dirty man.

He tells her how lonely he feels, and no woman wants to have him. He says he lives like a dog alone, but she can’t believe why he said so, because she doesen’t means that a dog lives alone.

At one time she gets very surprised, because the taxi driver says her name. But then she saw that she still was wearing her name badge from the conference she had been to. She says that when you wear a name badge it’s like every people know you, even if they only know your name.

The woman tells him that she has got a husband, even if she actually hasn’t.

2) Characterize

Miriam is very successful and she has a lot of money. She lives in a big house and she has a red sports car. She lives on her own, and actually she feels very lonesome, even if she won’t realize it. She is stressed, because she is working too much, and therefore she went to the hospital very often to get her heart checked.