The Specialist's Hat And You Have Never Been Here

Short stories are stories that are shorter than novels, but are still fully developed just like a novel. Many of the stories have themes to them as well as a well developed plot. Within the stories they are able to fit a timeline of events in a small amount of pages. Many short stories such as: “The Specialist’s Hat”, “Hell Is the Absence of God”, “You Have Never Been Here”, “Sea Oak”, and“Bright Morning”. These short stories all have different themes, plot structure, characters, plus different interpretations. The theme for “The Specialist’s Hat,” is that life and death are close. By saying that the two twin girls play the dead game, “... so they began to play the Dead game. The Dead game is a let’s pretend… When they are Dead, they are …show more content…
She does a really great job making the reader wonder what is really going on, especially towards the end of the story, the main character is just as confused as the reader. The author uses a good amount of imagery to describe what it seems as a hospital. A theme the reader can interpret is that the body does everything that it is told to do, it breathes no matter what is going on. Another interpretation from a review of the story, “... we don’t know who we are, where we came from, or why we exist. Caged in bodies subject to addiction, randomness, and the molecular tyranny of disease, our best hope is to cultivate creativity and love” (“Review of You Have Never Been Here: New and Selected Stories by Mary Rickert” …show more content…
There is not much the author reveals about the main character, but mentions when he was in highschool. The irony in the story happens at the end of the story. First off, in high-school he runs into Bettleman at the library, Bettleman recommends a book to him and he starts to read it. After reading the book he becomes obsessed with Kafka, which is the author of the book he was given. Throughout the story he is obsessed with the story “Bright Morning,” and he searches for it for a long time. One night he is called and told he is able to bid for the copy, a very sketchy conversation, he drives to the house. He walks into the room and when the man turns around in his chair it is Bettleman. When he is about to win the bid for the book Bettleman has a sad face. This then leads to what is mentioned earlier in the first paragraph about this story. The guy who bought the book disappeared. It is ironic that Bettleman is the person who showed him the collection of stories and is the one to have the book he has been searching for. Then to only not buy the book because there is a curse on the

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