Summary Of The Caveman In The Hedge

Relationships are everywhere, but examining specific relationship sometimes present a tricky mine field to wander through. In the short story “The Caveman in the Hedges”, by Stacey Richter is about a complicated relationship between the narrator and his girlfriend Kim, who desire different things in life. The narrator wants to have his punk rocker life back with his girlfriend Kim when they used to be careless and immature, but his girlfriend Kim wanted to form a family and get married with the narrator. So this caused greater conflict further on in the story because Kim started to act like the caveman's to the point where the narrator thought Kim was having and affair in the basement. Then the narrator changed his actions and behavior in how

In Kim’s younger age with her beloved partner, they used to be punk rockers and acted wild, similar to the cavemen. As the narrator and Kim settled down, they changed into a more civilized and mature couple. Kim and the narrator moved to a suburban area and lived together for ten years. Although Kim and the narrator have been living together for a while, they were not as happy as they were when they were young. Kim desires to form a family and marry the narrator, but the narrator wants to have his punk rock days back. The narrator misses those days when they use to drink, smoke, and go to concerts, and just live life like wild young adults. I believe that Kim loved the narrator, but I don't think the narrator loved her enough to commit to marriage because Kim would tell him that she wants to get married and he would always change the subject, until one day the narrator confessed to her that he was not ready to get married yet. According to the narrator, buying a house, and being co-borrowers, was enough of a

When the narrator and her girlfriend were younger they were destructive, wild, threatening, and didn’t care what anyone thought of them. The characters chose to change their lifestyle, but I believe they were not happy with who they’ve become. “The whole idea of marriage makes me want to pull a dry-cleaning bag over my face. I miss our punk rock days, Kim and me and our closer friends playing in bands, spitting at guys BMW’s, shooting drugs, . . and living in basements with anarchy tattoos. Poking through the rips in our clothing” (Stacey Richter 535). The narrator was not into the ideal of marriage and having kids as much as Kim hoped to. This is important to know because it gives us a better understanding of their point of views and their