![]() ![]() ![]() So, if you take all of Unwin’s façade and shape away he tried toconstruct from Hamlet, no meaning to his life, rather nothing remains, thus,this novel is to show how meaningless and transient life actually is. In order to give his own existence a sense of meaning,Bill empathizes with Hamlet, but in the end the reader has to discover thatthese two characters have nothing in common and Unwin’s emptiness of life isstressed. Searching for clues to understand hislife, Unwin addresses themes such as love, loss, identity, mortality, and theephemeral nature of life. Swift tries to picture the insignificance of life and therefore, focuses thestory of this middle-aged desperate and childless widower Bill Unwin, whorecently survived an attempted suicide. ![]() This citation neatly covers what Graham Swift’s novel EverAfter is about a no one identifies himself with a world-famous figure, namelyWilliam Shakespeare’s Hamlet, to provide some structure and meaning to hisirrelevant existence. I am Bill Unwin (there, I declare myself!). 3 Swift’s Intention to Chose Hamlet as a Reference Text and to Create His Narrator like This ![]()
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