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Another Fine Mess Theme

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This essay contains the analysis from the short story “Another Fine Mess” by Ray Bradbury. Bella Winters, a middle aged woman living in Los Angeles wakes up after hearing sounds of two men arguing while they deliver the piano up the stairs in the middle of the night. After some examination, she discovers that the noises are of Laurel and Hardy, her favourite childhood characters. She calls her friend Zelda who is also a Hollywood fanatic to confirm her suspicions and then joins her. They both find out that they are ghosts who are looking for “lost love” and the two of their biggest fans help them find it. When reading the story it might be very obvious that it is about how Bella and Zelda’s favourite characters from their past have come back into their life so that they can be acknowledged how they were truly felt by the people to whom they had given so much meaning to their so that they won’t have this feeling of unrequited love anymore. However, Laurel and Hardy doppelgangers of Bella and Zelda and they feel exactly the same way, two old people who are looking for love. …show more content…

Furthermore, when Bella goes down to investigate the noises, her husband Sam seems concerned but is told “So what can happen at night to a woman fifty five, fat, and ugly?” and Sam doesn’t bother contradicting her. The two previous quotes actually mean that Bella Winters is living in a city in which there is always summer and where age never goes up but she is still beautiful and is not told enough so she feels that she is not. ( Page 393 and

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