The Sandwich Factory

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The Sandwich Factory The story takes place in 1994 which we can se in this quotation: “It was a terrible shame that it was 1994…” page 1 line 35, and in a Sandwich factory were we meet the narrator who works there. The short story is written in 1st person and we hear his own view of the place. We are hearing all his thoughts and opinions, but we don’t know if it’s true or not. The narrator tells us which books he reads for example the Camuls novels and the novel “Confessions of a Mark” and he is also mention his Joy Division record, which tells us that he is a clever person and maybe a student who works on the sandwich factory to make some money. We also know the narrator is a man because we are being told he has no confidence in women. We get a very bad impression of the factory though the whole story. The factory almost turn the workers into machines by prevent their development of emotions. And in the end of the story the narrator finds out that he doesn’t want to be a part of all that. And we are also getting an impression of the narrator isn’t like all the other at the factory, he still has feelings and gets shy when a women wants to have contact with him instead of being very sure of himself which they other might be in those situations. Like I mentioned before the factory turns the employees into machines because their work is all the same. This kind of work can easily ruin your personality, which has happened to Dot. Madman is also a good example of what the factory are doing to the employees. Madman is also a good example of what is happening on the sandwich factory, which we can see in this quotation: “He would leer through a hatch and wave a knife at me”. Page 1 line 3. The leader of the sandwich factory doesn’t respect the employees and he almost treats them like robots and they really has nothing to even say or do. The leader is also dividing the
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