Analysis Of Dont You Hate Having Two He
Analysis of ”Don’t you hate having two heads”
The short story genre is characterized with a short length, few people and a short story line. Short stories often begins in media res. Short stories are fiction and has a composition. This novel is a crime story because it contains a murder. This short story is not a typical kind of crime story because the reader doesn’t know there’s the murder until the end.
Christine Pauls’ short story "Don’t you hate having two heads" is about Richard and his trip to Venice. Richard meets Jessica, an unknown woman to him, at an art museum. He is married but hides his wedding ring and seeks other women. After a brief conversation with Jessica she disappears and Richard believes he has lost his chance to speak with her again. After leaving the museum he notices her again at a cafe and decides to make her company. Jessica tells about a serial killer who murders people with a cheese wire. After food, flirting and long conversations between the two persons, Jessica goes to the restroom and Richard decides to leave her because of guilt towards his wife. The next day Richards’s wife Sarah arrives to Venice and he explains about his short and discreet meeting with Jessica at the café. In the end Richard reads an article about a new murder with a cheese wire, this time in Venice. Richard realizes that he has taken Jessica’s bag and in the bag he finds a cheese wire and at this point Richard realizes that Jessica is the serial murder.
There isn’t an exact time for the story but it takes place over a few days and could easily take place in 2012. The short story takes place in Venice, the Guggenheim Museum, the cafe and at the hotel. The environment is middle class or upper class environment, both Richard and Jessica are at the museum, in the café and staying at a hotel which indicates money isn’t a problem.
The language is simple and in past tense. The story is told in third person past tense but there are some dialogues between Richard
The short story genre is characterized with a short length, few people and a short story line. Short stories often begins in media res. Short stories are fiction and has a composition. This novel is a crime story because it contains a murder. This short story is not a typical kind of crime story because the reader doesn’t know there’s the murder until the end.
Christine Pauls’ short story "Don’t you hate having two heads" is about Richard and his trip to Venice. Richard meets Jessica, an unknown woman to him, at an art museum. He is married but hides his wedding ring and seeks other women. After a brief conversation with Jessica she disappears and Richard believes he has lost his chance to speak with her again. After leaving the museum he notices her again at a cafe and decides to make her company. Jessica tells about a serial killer who murders people with a cheese wire. After food, flirting and long conversations between the two persons, Jessica goes to the restroom and Richard decides to leave her because of guilt towards his wife. The next day Richards’s wife Sarah arrives to Venice and he explains about his short and discreet meeting with Jessica at the café. In the end Richard reads an article about a new murder with a cheese wire, this time in Venice. Richard realizes that he has taken Jessica’s bag and in the bag he finds a cheese wire and at this point Richard realizes that Jessica is the serial murder.
There isn’t an exact time for the story but it takes place over a few days and could easily take place in 2012. The short story takes place in Venice, the Guggenheim Museum, the cafe and at the hotel. The environment is middle class or upper class environment, both Richard and Jessica are at the museum, in the café and staying at a hotel which indicates money isn’t a problem.
The language is simple and in past tense. The story is told in third person past tense but there are some dialogues between Richard