Analysis Of Sleep By Haruki Murakami

In a short story called," Sleep," written by Haruki Murakami and translated by Jay Rubin, is a story about from the perspective of a thirty years old woman who is a respected housewife in the day time and a woman who does things which aren 't routine in her night life. This short story holds many controversial viewpoints of a person 's perspective as they read through to better understand what the main character is going through. The main character goes through a transformation as she suffers from insomnia and tries to understand what the true version of herself is.

At the start of the short story, the main character goes tells the audience that she could not for about seventeen days. She tells the audience that she has had this incident of "something like insomnia" in college where even if she told her herself to sleep, she just could not sleep at all despite all the things she did to make herself fall asleep. She doesn 't go to a doctor because states that it would not help her problems at all and even with sleeping pills or alcohol, it still didn 't work. The

When she drops something or miscalculates something, it seems her brain has left her body and it is strange that no one has noticed at all what she is going through. Even though she is suffering through insomnia, she is going through life as if she was asleep and she felt was floating or a dead corpse who was lost everything while she is listening to the clock tick off the seconds when she is supposed to fall asleep. The reader sees the effects of insomnia as someone going through the motions that they are feeling tired and sleepy, but they just can 't sleep because the person 's minds seem to not want the person to sleep no matter how hard they try and how no one seems to notice anything different about the