The Factory by Mary Dilworth
Written assignment Hannah Diwiak, 1c
In the story ''The Factory'' the author Mary Dilworth writes about one of the nowadays main questions: what to choose when we have to decide between family or further a privat life for your own and career. Through out her characters she shows what can happen when the family feels left behind. And puts up the question what is really worth to achieve in life.
The narrator of the story ''always hated the factory'' (p.1 l.1), though she worked once herself in a factory as the boss's secretary, where she also met her nowadays husband (p.1 l.20-22). Her hate against this institution is so strong, that she often imagined it burning down (''I've often imagined it without its red bricks, just an etching of black against a red sky'' p.1 l.2-3).
I assume that the narrator is rather introvert or at least not very talkative when it comes to her own thoughts and emotions towards the factory. (''Of course, I've never said anything about this to anyone.'' p.1 l.4)Infact it seems as she had grown accustom to it. But not only her attitude towards the factory seems to differ from Erics but also her lifestyle in general seems to be the complete opposite of his; as she enjoys the natural beauty of the night with its stars and stays up late.
While he goes to bed early so that he ''feels fresh then for the next day'' (p.1 l.18) and ''always reads the business section of the newspaper'' (p.1 l.10). That way focuses on his work in the factory and his daily routine. ''He didn't have much eduacation'' (p.1 l.18-19), probably because he rather grew up poor and didn't had the chance to get a higher eduacation.
This could have caused that he is so ambitious with his factory and his work; that he wants to achieve more than his parents.
The factory and his on the factory depending routine are the things that matter to him the most. What can be seen in the title of the text as well as in the fact that in the text itself
In the story ''The Factory'' the author Mary Dilworth writes about one of the nowadays main questions: what to choose when we have to decide between family or further a privat life for your own and career. Through out her characters she shows what can happen when the family feels left behind. And puts up the question what is really worth to achieve in life.
The narrator of the story ''always hated the factory'' (p.1 l.1), though she worked once herself in a factory as the boss's secretary, where she also met her nowadays husband (p.1 l.20-22). Her hate against this institution is so strong, that she often imagined it burning down (''I've often imagined it without its red bricks, just an etching of black against a red sky'' p.1 l.2-3).
I assume that the narrator is rather introvert or at least not very talkative when it comes to her own thoughts and emotions towards the factory. (''Of course, I've never said anything about this to anyone.'' p.1 l.4)Infact it seems as she had grown accustom to it. But not only her attitude towards the factory seems to differ from Erics but also her lifestyle in general seems to be the complete opposite of his; as she enjoys the natural beauty of the night with its stars and stays up late.
While he goes to bed early so that he ''feels fresh then for the next day'' (p.1 l.18) and ''always reads the business section of the newspaper'' (p.1 l.10). That way focuses on his work in the factory and his daily routine. ''He didn't have much eduacation'' (p.1 l.18-19), probably because he rather grew up poor and didn't had the chance to get a higher eduacation.
This could have caused that he is so ambitious with his factory and his work; that he wants to achieve more than his parents.
The factory and his on the factory depending routine are the things that matter to him the most. What can be seen in the title of the text as well as in the fact that in the text itself