Analyse af 'Live Like a Dog, Alone'

Feeling lonely at times is very human. There are different kinds of loneliness: feeling as though you don't have enough or any friends at all. Sometimes we suffer because of a false belief about ourselves: "If I am alone, then something must be wrong with me. Perhaps I am unlovable”. No one likes to be alone, everyone wants to have friends and family around themselves, but at the end of the day, we are all alone. So what is loneliness? Is it a feeling? A condition? For different people, it means different things. This is also the case in “Live like A Dog, Alone”, where the author writes about a woman and a man, who both are lonely, and they tell each other about it.

“Live Like a Dog, Alone” is written in third person. The author is writing about a woman called Miriam, who is the main character. The story takes place late in the evening, in a cab, where Miriam meets the taxi driver. Miriam is on her way home from the hospital.

Miriam is “fifty-five but most people assumed she was in her forties”. Her husband or ex-husband left her for an actress and left Miriam penniless. She had made it in life and “now she ran a successful nursing agency, and had been voted Businesswoman of the Year”. When reading the story you observe that Miriam is an extremely caring person who needs to make sure that everybody is happy and satisfied. There are several places in the text that show it.