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Theme: The theme for the short story, "He and I" by the author Natalia_Ginzburg is more of a character comparison between herself and her husband. Ginzburg explains how different they are towards each other, along with their different morals. Her husband is a well-known man and loves to go on exciting adventures and has the admiration of a "perfect" life. He likes to go out and make an impression on other people. He likes to go to the cinemas and knows about the history behind it. He is very smart and likes to teach. He likes to make himself noticeable in the world. The wife on the other hand, doesn't seem to be interested in the world like her husband is. It may seem as if Ginzburg is referring men to be this way, this could be a way of dealing with the death and trouble with her husband during the war. If a husband who was murdered in jail The character Ginzburg puts on the woman is a shy person who is private and doesn't seem to open herself up to anyone but her husband. Ginzburg portrays the woman character scarcely curious about very few things, and retains scattered impressions of them. She is a writer and worked for a publishing house. Her biggest dream is to write screenplays for the cinemas. But because she is such a private person and does not open herself up out into the word, she lost the hope of writing screenplays quickly.

Age/Time: Age/Time: •	Before World War 2 This is the age where men in Italy were more superior in the relationship. Women had no say so into what was going to happen in the marriage or what she was going to do with her daily life. Women would attend to their husbands and wait on them hand and foot. Ginzburg’s husband was a scholar of Russian Literature and leader of the antifascist underground, and was killed by the Nazis in 1944. Because he was a professor he had more knowledge than she did. Or so she thought. She was only a writer that wrote for a publishing house. The characters husband would normally make most of the decisions in their lives.

Form: The form for this short story would be Creative Non-Fiction. A nonfiction essay is a short, nonfiction narrative work of prose literature that is analytic, speculative, or interpretive in nature, dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, and written from the author’s point of view. In He and I, Ginzburg explains how her husband is superior to her and how he will always be. H is the one who makes the decisions in their life because it was more common at that time for the males to make the decisions, and the fact that she was always really shy around other people.