The Man Who Hugged Women | Analysis

Denne study guide hjælper dig med analyse og fortolkning af novellen "The Man Who Hugged Women" af Mischa Hiller.

Teksten har været anvendt til skriftlig eksamen med netadgang i Engelsk B på STX den 22. august 2014, hvor eksamensspørgsmålet lød:

Write an analytical essay (700-1000 words) in which you analyse and interpret Mischa Hiller’s short story “The Man Who Hugged Women”.

Your essay must include the following points:
- a characterisation of Freya
- the relationship between Freya and Pearl
- point of view
- the main theme

Præsentation af teksten

Titel: "The Man Who Hugged Women" (2012)
Forfatter: Mischa Hiller
Genre: Novelle

Mischa Hiller (1962- ) er en britisk forfatter, hvis roman Sabra Zoo vandt Commonwealth Writers' Prize for bedste debutroman i 2011.

Uddrag

Her får du et uddrag fra afsnittet "Characterisation of Freya":

The indirect characterisation is used to let the reader know that Freya is a fragile woman, who craves the sense of security. Her husband does not make her feel safe, as her father did. When Pearl first describes the guru, Freya hears the testimonies of other married women who have been his patients:

No, they say he feels safe, it’s like hugging your dad.” Freya was struck by a strong memory of being hugged by her father – it did feel safe, a sense of masculine protection. No, not protection, care. Of being held without any expectation of anything in return. The smell of a man. A smell that seemed to have disappeared in today’s overdeodorised and perfumed male ( ll. 69-73).