Analyse af 'The Sandwich Factory'

The text “The Sandwich Factory” is a short story written by Jason Kennedy. The story takes place in 1994 at a sandwich factory and we meet the narrator who works there. It deals with a man’s experience doing a low-paid job at a sandwich factory. It tells the story of how the man needs to be able to deal with a lot of things about himself and other people, to do the work and concentrate about it. The factory threatens to turn human beings into machines by thwarting the development of their emotions and imaginations and in the end of the story the narrator realizes that he doesn’t want to be a part of the factory.

In the beginning the narrator introduces us to some of the people he works with. The narrator in this story is a 1st person narrator who restricts his own view to the factory. It is important to remember that it is his own thoughts and own opinions, and that doesn’t necessarily mean that all of it is true and he may seem unreliable – for example in some of his descriptions of the other characters. In the end of the story we have a situation not happening in the factory, but in his car as he drives a girl home. At the end we are back at the factory. The main character seems to be a guy who doesn’t like his life. He is very pessimistic, which is seen in the way he reacts on different things in life, and in the way he doesn’t believe in himself. It is very obvious that he doesn’t have any self-confidence, as he speaks badly about everyone around him – even his job.