What can we learn from reading this? In most literature what we learn is the opinions of the author. The author of this text has been quoted for saying that crime stories say something of interest about our own time. So what does this story say of our time? Mr. Carey is an example of a conservative, very strict in keeping the forms and virtues of old and nearly forgetting that he is human and not a machine, to kill time with traditions and routines. He hardly seems to acknowledge the world he lives in, it also says that he is afraid of blacks which is a growing problem in the Danish society today. But nobody seems to acknowledge its serious as much as they should it is a problem not trusting other people to be human just because of genetics. He is a very good model that traditions and virtues are good specially the last but they should not be allowed to rule humanity or time but taken in to consideration as we progress, to be revised discarded or kept. First time Mr. Carey is faced with the realities of the world in this story is when a young prostitute tries to offer him herself. He is appalled by this and refuses. But he is deeply chocked like one who has never realized that some people are actually performing this too old practice. This I believe is the very first hint to what will happen sooner on in the story that this story’s conflict is in part caused by sex. It also shows how uncomfortable Mr. Carey gets when it is brought up. And later when he reads his wife’s letters, he cracks totally. A point the author clearly wanted to put across in this novel would be the conflicting attitudes towards sex. Sometimes we might be led to believe like Mr. Carey when he is read his wife letters that sex if the only thing that everybody thinks about. And we take it too lightly and many take it for granted. We see it everywhere wherever we look in the TV or newspaper, we hear about it when we go to school and read about it in magazines. And sometimes when you hear people talk, it makes you think that they have actually forgotten love because of it. Mr. Carey also goes through this process after he has read his wife’s letters. I believe he did love his wife both before and after the accident, but before he never thinks about t and after he is too obsessed about her adultery. I do believe that his wife loved him too otherwise she would have left him. But where he believed sex to be unnecessary, she appears to have thought it vital to be unfaithful to one whom she obviously cared for. I do not hold any off these opinions too be true, although one more than the other, I do not believe it vital. I have adopted a version in which it is as I think it should be a way of expressing love and not necessary for it, but certainly the other way around is quite vital. And I do believe that the people have become, and always have been too careless with it.

Hvad kan vi lære af at læse dette? I det meste litteratur er det, vi lærer, forfatterens meninger. Forfatteren til denne tekst er blevet citeret for at sige, at krimier siger noget af interesse om vores egen tid. Så hvad siger denne historie om vores tid? Mr. Carey er et eksempel på en konservativ, meget streng i at bevare de gamle former og dyder og næsten glemmer, at han er et menneske og ikke en maskine, for at slå tiden ihjel med traditioner og rutiner. Han ser næsten ikke ud til at anerkende den verden, han lever i, det siger også, at han er bange for sorte, hvilket er et voksende problem i det danske samfund i dag. Men ingen ser ud til at anerkende, at det er så alvorligt, som de burde, det er et problem ikke at stole på, at andre mennesker er mennesker, bare på grund af genetik. Han er en meget god model for, at traditioner og dyder er gode, især de sidste, men de bør ikke have lov til at styre menneskeheden eller tiden, men tages i betragtning, efterhånden som vi udvikler os, for at blive revideret, kasseret eller bevaret. Første gang, Mr. Carey bliver konfronteret med verdens realiteter i denne historie, er, da en ung prostitueret forsøger at tilbyde ham sig selv. Han er rystet over dette og nægter. Men han er dybt chokeret som en, der aldrig har indset, at nogle mennesker faktisk udfører denne alt for gamle praksis. Dette tror jeg er det allerførste hint til, hvad der vil ske før i historien, at denne histories konflikt er delvist forårsaget af sex. Det viser også, hvor utilpas Mr. Carey bliver, når den bliver opdraget.Og senere, da han læser sin kones breve, knækker han totalt. En pointe, forfatteren klart ønskede at fremføre i denne roman, ville være de modstridende holdninger til sex. Nogle gange kan vi blive forledt til at tro som Mr. Carey, når hans kone bliver læst, at sex, hvis det eneste, alle tænker på. Og vi tager for let på det, og mange tager det for givet. Vi ser det overalt, hvor end vi kigger i tv eller avis, vi hører om det, når vi går i skole og læser om det i magasiner. Og nogle gange, når du hører folk tale, får det dig til at tro, at de faktisk har glemt kærligheden på grund af det. Mr. Carey gennemgår også denne proces, efter at han har læst sin kones breve. Jeg tror, ​​han elskede sin kone både før og efter ulykken, men før han aldrig tænker på det, og efter at han er for besat af hendes utroskab. Jeg tror, ​​at hans kone også elskede ham, ellers ville hun have forladt ham. Men hvor han mente, at sex var unødvendigt, ser hun ud til at have tænkt det afgørende at være utro mod en, som hun åbenbart holdt af. Jeg afviser ikke, at disse meninger også er sande, selv om den ene mere end den anden, jeg ikke mener, at den er afgørende. Jeg har adopteret en version, hvor det er, som jeg synes, det burde være en måde at udtrykke kærlighed på og ikke nødvendigt for det, men bestemt omvendt er ret vital. Og jeg tror, ​​at folk er blevet og altid har været for skødesløse med det.