Indledning
The short story “Now there is peace” is written by the American author Richard Sherman in 1933. The short story was published in Vanity fair in 1933.
One of the themes in the short story is expectations and throughout the history the consequences begin to show its ugly face.
Everyone has at some point in their live experienced the immense feeling of expectation. Whether it’s from school, at home or at some kind of sport. Sometimes the expectations simply surpass the amount of pressure you can stand.
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Uddrag
The mother is throughout the short story very sympathetic, she speaks to Martin after he’s gone out of the house and they share the same experience of Arthur crying alone.
She seems like she is very sad about her deceased son, but she also seems to know why he died. The mother wasn’t a big protagonist for the father’s high expectations.
She could possibly have known what the consequences of the very high expectations of their son could be.
She almost seemed clarified of her son's death. In the ending of the short story, the mother makes a great deal out of telling Martin that he should be who he wanted to be and not being affected by others wants. This makes it seem like she has learned from her deceased son.
Martin is the main character of the short story. He is the narrator of the story and he is a third person narrator and a Limited omniscient.
Martin met Arthur at school, because he was his Senior Counselor. Arthur was older than Martin and that meant that they didn’t quite know each other that well.
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