The Music Room

I denne study guide kan du få hjælp til at analysere novellen "The Music Room" af Stephen King. Udover analysehjælpen kan du finde et summary af teksten samt idéer til fortolkning og perspektivering.

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Titel: “The Music Room” (2016)
Forfatter: Stephen King
Genre: Short story

Stephen King (f. 1947) er en amerikansk forfatter. Han er særlig kendt for sine værker inden for horrorgenren, og han har vundet adskillige litterære priser. Mange af hans romaner og noveller har dannet grundlag for film eller tv-serier.

Novellen "The Music Room" blev første gang udgivet i antologien In Sunlight or in Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper (2016), hvor en række forfattere blev bedt om at skrive fortællinger ud fra udvalgte malerier af Edward Hopper.

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The title of Stephen King's short story “The Music Room” is a direct reference to the physical setting of the story. Mr. and Mrs. Enderby sit “in their music room—so they called it, although it was really just the spare bedroom” (p. 119, ll. 1-2). The room was initially intended to be a nursery, but the couple turned it into a music room after coming to terms with the idea that they cannot have children. The setting is based on a painting from 1932 by the American realist painter Edward Hopper called “Room in New York”. The painting shows a couple sitting in a small room with a closet and a piano. Mr. and Mrs. Enderby represent the couple from the painting. The music room contains a piano, which was a wedding gift from Mrs. Enderby’s parents (p. 120, l. 1). The music room also contains a “soundproofed and specially reinforced closet” (p. 124, l. 10), where the couple lock up their victims.