A Man Called Ove Analysis

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As I began reading A Man Called Ove I found myself getting irritated. I thought Ove was just another old man who didn't do anything but complain about the faults of people younger than himself but my irritation was soon replaced with something else entirely. My view of Ove was completely changed with one small paragraph of the novel. "Taking it a bit easy," they said to him. A lot of thirty-one-year-old show-offs working with computers and refusing to drink normal coffee. An entire society where no one knows how to back up with a trailer. Then they come telling him he's not needed anymore. Is that reasonable?" (Backman 23) It was at this point I realized that Ove complained because he feels useless in a world where expresso machines are used
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