The Stack

I denne study guide kan du få hjælp til at analysere novellen "The Stack" af Rose Tremain. Udover analysehjælp kan du finde et summary af teksten, samt inspiration til fortolkning og perspektivering. 

Præsentation af teksten

Titel: “The Stack” (1996)
Forfatter: Rose Tremain

Genre: Short story

Rose Tremain (f. 1943) er en engelsk forfatter, som både har skrevet noveller og romaner. Hun har opånet stor anerkendelse for sit arbejde, fx har romanerne Sacred County (1992) og Music and Silence (1999) begge vundet litteraturpriser. 

Tremains novelle "The Stack" blev første gang udgivet i tidsskriftet The New Yorker.

Uddrag

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Title

The title of the short story “The Stack” does not immediately indicate what the plot is about. The meaning of the title is both literal and symbolic. In the literal sense, it refers to the stack of plates that the main character, John McCreedy, builds on his table at the restaurant where he celebrates his birthday:

(…) he begins gathering up the plates. Dinner plates, knives and forks, side plates, veg dishes. One by one he reaches across the table and piles them into a stack in front of him (…) with his own uneaten piece of meat transferred to the top plate (173- 176)

The symbolic meaning of the stack is revealed directly by McCreedy himself:

Then he picks up his flab of steak in his fingers and lets it dangle above the stack. He takes a breath. ‘See this?’ he says. ‘This John McCreedy aged forty-six today. See it? Chewed and left. Stranded. And this is all your stuff, underneath. Cold and hard and messed up.’ (ll. 188-192)

Here, McCreedy uses the stack as a symbol of his life. He suggests that he is symbolically sitting on a stack of unresolved issues that he has with himself and his family.

Mere hjælp

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Short story analysis

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  • 20-06-2023
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