Analyse af Brian McCabes 'A Good Night's Sleep'

A Good Night’s Sleep was written by Brian McCabe and appeared for the first time in ‘In a Dark Room with a Stranger’. I think that it’s a story written to inform or remind the reader of the serious problem in all larger cities – apparently homelessness. But also to remind each of us, who read it, to care about eachother because the mordern society is so selfish, no one cares about the others and their problems.

But i don’t think that homelessness is not the only theme in the story; I would say that lonelyness, trust, care for eachoter and pride and prejudices.

Lonelyness; because Lockhart and the girl is lonely. When Lokhart lies in his bed in the middle of the night and try not to think about Elain, he apparently feel lonley, and he can hear all these soft bumpings against the door, just to remind him about his lonelyness. The girl is homeless and it doesn’t seem to be the fact, that she has any real friends, she has nobody to talk to.

Trust; because Lockhart and the girl don’t seem to trust eachother very much, she suspects him the whole time, and she act like she has to defend her self all the time. He dosn’t feel comfortable of the fact that she want’s to sleep at his doormat, but he is splitted because she’s might taking drugs, and if he send her away she properply die in another place, mabay a cold and more uncormfortable that his doormat.