ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT : “LIVE LIKE A DOG, ALONE”
1. Give a summary of “Live Like a Dog, Alone”
The short story is about two persons, who both live alone. Miriam is a middle-aged single
woman. She has a great career and no children. But her heart is dysfunctional, and
therefore she sometimes has to go to the hospital.
The story is set inside a taxi, which is driving Miriam home after a visit at the hospital.
The taxi driver and Miriam talks. Not in the usual polite way of conversations between
drivers and costumers, but instead of the drivers personal life.
He seems quite depressed and unhappy with his life. He tells Miriam how he feels about
living alone and his thoughts about it collides with the way Miriam feels.
During the ride, the two persons get aware of their different perspectives on their, in some
point, similar life. That does somehow broaden their horizons, and gives them a new
awareness about the way they and other people live.
2. Characterize Miriam and the way she lives
Miriam is a woman who lives alone, with no husband and children. She has been married
once, but they didnt get any children. She has a great career, as I see it shes some kind of
doctor or specialist in stress. Ironically, shes very stressed herself. That affects that she has
to go to the hospital where her heart is stopped and then started over again.
I think that she basically is happy about her life, even though she lives alone. She thinks it
