![]() ![]() ![]() I read the opening to my girlfriend, who said, “whatever.” But that opening sets up the rest of the story with the main character, who has made a career as a character actor, discussing trying to come to terms with his leading-actress wife’s four affairs. The story starts out a little chauvinistic with the third-person narrator giving a critique of the types of women drivers out there, separating them into mostly either too aggressive or too timid. But of course Murakami, like all great writers, makes it work and draws you deeper into the story because now you’re a part of it. If you did this in a writing critique, you would immediately be called out. “Drive My Car” is written, mostly, in third-person limited point of view but with a first-person POV sentence with a “we” in the very first paragraph. “Drive My Car” is the first story in his most recently released book of short stories titled “Men Without Women.” I don’t know how much of a Hemingway fan he is, but that’s the same title Hemingway gave to a book of his short stories. Murakami is the terrific Japanese writer who, among other works, wrote 1Q84. ![]()
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