Dreams are the Main Theme in the Short Story, Poetic Justice

“Everybody have a dream. A dream that will always be in the back of their heads. They can live their life happily ever after even though the dream doesn’t come true. That’s how it is, some dreams come true, and some do not. Some is quickly forgotten, or else is the person just trying to ignore them because deep inside they know they doesn’t come true. And some dreams is just there until you realize you don’t want then anymore.

In the short story “poetic justice” is it those dreams, which are the main theme.

The narrator in the text is a typical housewife; she is doing the laundry, the dishes and picking up the kids from school. In the text we see her life from several angles.

When she was a teenager she fall in love with Jed and lived with his sight of life. She was very much in love with him, but she still wants to have a family going to university, getting a career and being successful. When they broke up, the wild side she had in her left with him.

Now she is just an ordinary woman with a boring life, according to herself. At some points it’s kinda like she actually hates her life, and deeply regrets how it has turned out.

When she describes Jed in the beginning of the text, she gives us not her own name. It’s not worth mentioning, that shows her view of herself. She describe him as a kind of person to look up to. His a man with his own ideas, he don’t care about others opinion, and he is very clever. He seek challenges in intellectual authors like Albert Camus. He wants to show off that he is the master off his own life. He doesn’t see success as money, he will not be a rich lawyer, or a dentist or any other well paid job. He just wants to live his life. He sees freedom as a must, and he is not that kind of person...

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...ring suburban housewife, but instead sees a mother, a normal woman at her best age with her life full of love and happiness. That unfinished dream from her pass, which has been in her head all her life, got removed the second she deleted the chat with Jed. In the entire story she comes out as a weak women who has lost her powers and just live her life as it comes to her, but in the end we see a very strong women when she deletes the message. She has always wanted her life with Jed back, but when the opportunity comes up when she can talk to him she rejects. She realized she do not want that any more, she thought that was what she wanted but in the end, she saw her life for what it is, she is happy.

That’s how it is about dreams, they can be there even though you don know or have forgotten.

But one thing is sure; the only person who controls them is you. “