Harveys Dream

Harvey’s Dream

Summary of the Plot

          The story began when Janet turns from the sink of the kitchen and she sees her husband sit at the table. Time later she began to reflect about her life and she start thinking if Harvey was actually the result of a marriage that she had been trying to keep floating through the years even though they had three kids and they were unfaithful in some part of their life together. She thinks her life is empty until Harvey tells her about a dream he had. Janet starts to feel disturbed about the situation, and she wish that she had never told him to tell his dream. While Harvey continued telling his dream, she realized that there was a relation between his dream and real life, because she had experienced in the morning what Harvey saw in his dream. The story continue to be terrific for Janet when Harvey told him that he received a phone call in which they told him that one of his daughters was dead, in that instant the phone rang and Harvey answer it. 

Setting

June, Saturday summer morning, a house in Connecticut, actions take place in the kitchen of the house.        

Characters

• Janet: She is Harvey´s Stevens Wife; it is one of the main characters.
• Harvey Stevens: He is the other main character, he is Janet´s husband, he is an old man around seventy years old. He grabs Janet´s attention when he told her that he had a nightmare and he woke up screaming.
• Hannah: She is the friend of Janet; they swapped stories about Alzheimer tales.
• Frank Friedman: He appears in Harvey´s dream, his Volvo had a dent on the side and it was supposed that he had been out drinking.
• Trisha: She is the oldest of the girls; she appears waving a tinfoil wand over the cocker spaniel.
• Tim: It is the cocker spaniel.
• Jenna: She is the middle age between the girls; she appears jumping through the lawn sprinkler.
• Stephanie: The youngest of the girls, she appears at the county spelling bee.
• Timmy: Little kid that appears in Lassie, does not take part in the story, it is only mention.
• Clinton: He is only mention when they remembered when Harvey served on a Presidential commission

Point of view

          The point of view in Harvey´s Dream is third person because the narrator uses the pronouns he, she, also the narrator knows everything about the characters, it´s thoughts, and it is focus on them. The narrator in this point of view tries to take the reader into any of the scenes in the story.

Analysis

I think Stephen King is not only a great writer, but also a great emotion developer, and I say this because of the story, because it makes you travel through the different scenes, and it makes you feel what the character is feeling in that moment, it also gives you that feeling of fear when things began to fit on the puzzle to say it in that way. I think the story is able to grab your hold attention since the beginning until the end because every single detail is essential to uncover the mystery involved, what had happened after the phone call.

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