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Have you ever experienced overthinking and furthermore getting confused about who you are? That is exactly what the short story “Anima” by the Scottish writer Brian McCabe is about.
“Anima” was published in 1985 and it is a part of the short story collection ‘The Lipstick Circus and Other Stories’. Brian McCabe was born in 1951 in Edinburgh, but grew up in a small city called Bonnyrigg in Scotland.
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As she dresses him up as a girl, he starts staring into the mirror where the real confusion really begins. Page 4 line 6: “I whined, staring in facinasion at the bright lips.
Had I said that, or had she? Was it my mouth, or hers?” The boy was already confused from the beginning of the story, but this particular moment initiates the real confusion about his identity, and this is where he meets his femenine part of his personality, Anima.
The boy is an innocent and confused boy who is constantly overthinking. His identity and dress for the fancy-dress party is not the only things he overthinks, but even small details which can be seen on page 1 line 6-9:
“What had she meant by that? And what had she meant, when she’d said that a dinette wasn’t the same thing as a dining room? What was the difference? And why did we call it the dinette anyway.”
The boy is a dynamic character, which means he goes through a development. At the end, he gets more open-minded, gives femenine side a chance and realizes lots of things about himself, whereas in the past he was confused.
His confusion forces him to seek help from his family, for instance from his dad, but in vain.
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