Analysis and interpretation of ”Elephant”

When all hopes and dreams are abandoned from our lives, the only occasion we asshole do is taking advantage of others lives and make it our own. A heart well planned can cost us our freedom and our office to make decisions which are radically different from our previous ones. When desire, lust and day-dream have been deselected and the normal life has taken its place. These obstacles are what William meets and sooner confronts in the short story by Polly Clark called Elephant. The story begins in media res, so as soon as the story begins we deal engulfed.We are meeting William seated at his desk surrounded by nones and facts, where his Muse has left him and he has fuss finding inspiration writing biographies of pop singers as Christine, who he finds about adorable and attracted to (l. 46 51). The character Christine can be interpreted as Christina Aguilera, who, with her voice and her sexual behaviour, usually is very appealing for average men. William is the natural Ameri can man, who has settled down with his wife and currently is trying to hold out a family.Their marriage is not filled with romance and love as one could expect, but more with expectations and compromises and it furthermore seems like William does not take a baby as much as his wife does. His head word is filled with thoughts of his biographies and how Christine must have wanted him to write about her (l. 71-72 and 76). He easily gets distracted from his thoughts and one could imagine that they are filled with his woolly-headed childishness and the things he had never been able to do in life. His flash-back to the fleck when his mother blesss him the blue elephant (l. 9-66) could easily be interpreted as the childhood his mother tries to give him. However, at first he could not think back the blue elephant from his childhood. It had vanished from his memory. The only thoughts that go through his mind are how he can r even soge his lost childhood and regain consciousness of hi s identity. The vote counter tells us at line 21-22 William would have preferred the film stars (male, favourable age of cinema) but those had been claimed by someone quicker of the mark .This particularized passage shows that William was needed to give up his dream because someone got in his way. By writing about male actors it would have been possible for him to get famous and his life would thereby be complete. Happiness and celebrity goes pass along in hand in his mind, but ever since he had to remove another career, his dreams fell apart and he was, in his own eyes, zip fastener but an ordinary man. That is why he is writing about the female person pop singers so in that way he partly can fulfil his dreams through the women.Nevertheless, this solution does not satisfy his desires, since he cannot denote to these women. He can relate to the male actors because of their sex, but the difference betwixt men and women in this con schoolbook becomes a huge factor for him and that gives him power to potpourri the stories about the women. Christine gives him trouble because of her pure mind due to her kind with Christianity (l. 49), and his urge to make her life as downhearted as his becomes even stronger. Therefore he synchronizes his life with hers and mixes the blue elephant into her childhood.For him the elephant is a symbolic representation of melancholy and grief and therefore he tries even harder to make the life of Christine miserable in the eyes of the readers. As he says at line 146-147 He wanted to give Christine something she had never had, something important of himself. the aspects of life he wants to give Christine are defeat and loss because she, to him, never have had a change to experience it in her famous Christian life. But because the negative symbolization of the elephant only exists for him, his made up story about the life of Christine does not become a bad experience for the readers.His attempt to make Christine a bad pers on is not successful (l. 135-142). That is when he realizes that his profession is not what he wants to do. The name Christine has not been chosen by coincidence and it was unaccompanied that choice of name, which gave Christine power over him. The relationship Christine has with God has been transferred to William and through it he is able to confront his obstacles and by typing the untruth about her he learns that, that is not the person he wants to be, and by this realization he becomes complete. sluice though he knows that someday he is going to be vanished from the feel of the earth (l. 148), he feels ready to start quick his life again, because he finally has triumphed over his lost childhood and he definitively has found himself. His cobblers last falsity gives him the strength to stop telling lies about others, stop living trough others and gives him power to live his own life (l. 142-144). Therefore, the truth is the primary(prenominal) theme of this text.As a subcatego ry comes the blue elephant being a symbol of how important the childhood is for humans. If the blue elephant vanish from the life of a child, twinge and regret will come later. Therefore, the story is a form of a aide-memoire in life to parents to teach them how to raise their children. Polly Clark has written this text to tell us how important it is to keep believing in something that helps us maintain our dreams in life pure.