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The nearly 80-year-old English writer Julian Symons has in many years occupied with the crime genre. He means that the reality is more in place in the literature of crime, than in the so-called serious literature. The crime novels dare to criticise the weak points of society. You got caustic descriptions of the decay of morals and the entry of the crime in the social life – at all level. At the same time the crime stories are nearly always amusing so that the message is perceived by a wide audience.
Slum, concrete buildings, dreary apartments and cars there is stock at the city traffic –all the horrendous can be used for the setting of a crime-novel.
The good story makes even concrete-country exciting and interesting, without claiming into be especially beautiful.

Summary of: “The murderer”:

The story begins in a scene where we see the main character Howard Carey and a prostitute. She tries to offer him herself. He gets very choked and refuses.
At home he’s still choked, and thinks back at what she has said to him.
About 2 hours later he starts wondering why Ellen hasn’t come home. A police-officer arrives and tells him that his wife is killed in a car-accident, with her boss McIntyre. He gets a lot of attention from his friends, neighbours, boss and his son, Rod. They are all having ideas of what he is going to do with his life. But he rejects their help. At the inquest Mr. Carey gets a key from Ellen’s bag. The key fits her private drawer. In the drawer he finds several letters from McIntyre. He finds out that McIntyre and Ellen had had an affair. He’s reading the letters again and again. In the nights he’s having a nightmare of “the unknown side” of Ellen – that she wants anyone except him. After this he realizes his purpose in life. He’s going to pubs, and having contact with other women. Later on he starts kerb crawling. He finds the girl he met in the start and kills her. Afterwards he realizes that it was the wrong girl.


Essay:

The main character in the novel Howard is a very extreme conservative and a very inanimate and dull person. He also lives very much in his own world where he’s happily married and the world harbours no obscenities such as prostitution although he reads the paper he does not seem to believe it. He likes the world predictable and he does not like even the smallest display indecency or indiscreetness, as we see on his reaction at the Dempsey’s door. He also values his work much, so that he does not think twice about taking even the smallest break when his wife dies. This all changes though, over the course off the story he is presented with sides of humanity that he would rather not have exist or that he had forgot, prostitution and sex, but also friendliness and generosity, which he rejects.


What can we learn from reading this?
In most literature what we learn is the opinions of the author. The author of this text has been quoted for saying that crime stories say something of interest about our own time. So what does this story say of our time? Mr. Carey is an example of a conservative, very strict in keeping the forms and virtues of old and nearly forgetting that he is human and not a machine, to kill time with traditions and routines. He hardly seems to acknowledge the world he lives in, it also says that he is afraid of blacks which is a growing problem in the Danish society today. But nobody seems to acknowledge its serious as much as they should it is a problem not trusting other people to be human just because of genetics. He is a very good model that traditions and virtues are good specially the last but they should not be allowed to rule humanity or time but taken in to consideration as we progress, to be revised discarded or kept.

First time Mr. Carey is faced with the realities of the world in this story is when a young prostitute tries to offer him herself. He is appalled by this and refuses. But he is deeply chocked like one who has never realized that some people are actually performing this too old practice. This I believe is the very first hint to what will happen sooner on in the story that this story’s conflict is in part caused by sex. It also shows how uncomfortable Mr. Carey gets when it is brought up. And later when he reads his wife’s letters, he cracks totally. A point the author clearly wanted to put across in this novel would be the conflicting attitudes towards sex. Sometimes we might be led to believe like Mr. Carey when he is read his wife letters that sex if the only thing that everybody thinks about. And we take it too lightly and many take it for granted. We see it everywhere wherever we look in the TV or newspaper, we hear about it when we go to school and read about it in magazines. And sometimes when you hear people talk, it makes you think that they have actually forgotten love because of it. Mr. Carey also goes through this process after he has read his wife’s letters. I believe he did love his wife both before and after the accident, but before he never thinks about t and after he is too obsessed about her adultery. I do believe that his wife loved him too otherwise she would have left him. But where he believed sex to be unnecessary, she appears to have thought it vital to be unfaithful to one whom she obviously cared for. I do not hold any off these opinions too be true, although one more than the other, I do not believe it vital. I have adopted a version in which it is as I think it should be a way of expressing love and not necessary for it, but certainly the other way around is quite vital. And I do believe that the people have become, and always have been too careless with it.