Short analysis of Creative Writing by Etgar keret

Creative Writing The short story by Etgar Keret is about the metaphorical aspect of creative writing using two characters; Aviad and Maya, husband and wife who have recently gone through the tragedy of a miscarriage. The story begins with Maya, who has been encouraged to attend creative writting workshops in hopes of getting out more and moving on rather than sitting at home dwelling on the lost child. Aviad at first seems quite pleased that Maya has been doing well in her workshops, however he is critical about how she ends her stories and often wonders if she is in fact writing about him metaphorically. I almost got a sense that in every story she wrote it was there was a subconscious meaning behind it, the story about splitting in half, the story about the woman who falls out of love with her husband, and the story about the cat who’s paternity was in question. Maya even admitted writing the story of the cat before she got pregnant. It would appear that Aviad had an uneasy feeling about Maya's writing instructor hence showing up to the workshop a half hour early. Without Maya's knowledge, Aviad signs up for a creative writing workshop where he writes a short about a fish who is turned into a human by a witch. The fish eventually becomes successful as a human and when the witch decides to turn him back out of pity, she finds that the fish has found his place and leaves him be. The story ends with no definitive ending; however there may be a correlation to the fish story and the fact that since Maya has started writing she has changed as a person.