"Accident" is a short story written by Dave Eggers describing the scene of a car accident between the narrator of the story and three teenagers. The story is told from the 2nd person point of view as the word "you" is used often, for example, “You have done him and his friends harm, in a way, and you jeopardized their health, and now you are so close you feel like you share a heart.” By using the word "you" Egger allows the reader to step into the shoes of the narrator and give them the opportunity to get a feel of how it is to get into a car accident and judge the situation from the perspective of the person who caused the accident.
The narrator's attitude towards the accident shift from the beginning of the story to the end. The narrator's initial response was, "The accident was your fault, and you walk over to tell them this." After admitting his faults, the story circles around the fear of approaching the teenagers and how they would react. In his mind, he
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You are alone in yours…". The narrator is so lonely to the point that he'll go to the measure of causing a car accident just to have some form of human contact, but when he does have some form of human contact he's thankful whether good or bad.
The final paragraphs of the story show that the narrator is longing for human contact, the statement “…you are so lonely, so lonely always, and all contact is contact, and all contact makes us so grateful we want to cry and dance and cry and cry”, proves this point. The reader can assume that he feels close to these boys after just a small display of kindness because he's lacking these things in his everyday life. Clearly, the narrator is grateful for the encounter with the teenagers because in a matter of a few minutes they showed him attention and understanding which he does not receive on a