Analysis of 'The Sandwich Factory'

I had a reputation for being weird already without making it sound like I gloried in casual violence (l. 108-110)

The Short Story The Sandwich Factory by Jason Kennedy is about a man’s experiences doing a low-paid job at a sandwich factory. It tells us how the man needs to be able to deal with a lot of things about himself and other people with the work and concentrate about it. We get a very good insight about his job and personal life by his thoughts. It is obvious that this man does not like his job and we also get the feeling that he doesn’t like his life either.

The story takes places in 1994 in a Sandwich factory were our main character has a low-paid job. He seems to be a guy who doesn’t like his life. He is very pessimistic. It seen in the way he thinks and how he reacts to different things in his life “I had zero confidence with women anyway (l. 96). By this quotation it is also obvious that he had no self-confidence. It seems like his a very intelligent person in contrast to the others characters. I was on my side, with my Joe Division records, my Camus novels, halfway through Confessions of a Mask (l. 99-100). By the these things he reads some quite strange things like the Confession of a Mask is a Japanese writer called Yukio Mishima is not something that the people in the factory would read if they read at all.