Analyse af Courtney Jones' novelle 'Irregularities'

The short story, Irregularities is written by Courtney Jones. It’s a story about a woman we don’t hear her name. She works as an administrative assistant in a firm. Her boss is a nice man according to her his name is James Soleander. They had an affair even though he has the perfect life – he has a great wife there cares about him, lots of money and everything is just working out for him. The woman thinks she’s pregnant thru the whole story. The woman has something with her heart that makes her heart beat irrational. This is what James Soleander likes about this woman, but at the same time he doesn’t give her a minute of his time it’s like she’s not important.

The story is written in a special language. It’s like the woman, the narrator, it’s like she is telling us her story like she was sitting next to us. This you can see in lines 78-79 where she say “Ours is not the typical/secretary – ahem, administrative assistant-affair you might see in a soap opera” or in lines 89-90 “ Dr. Soleander is attracted to my heart. He’s become addicted to my irregular heartbeat, the strange thmp, thmp, THMP-THMP”. The little “ahem” is the sound a person makes when they clears there throat, and the sounds of a heart beating “thmp, THMP” which of course is not a correct word, but people can imagine the sound of it, which is what the narrator should say if she said it out loud. The themes in the story would I say is unrequited love because the narrator, the woman, can’t get the man she wants to have her boss James Soleander, and as I see it there isn’t anything she can do to get him because he got the perfect life.