THe Happy Man

The story by Najib Mahfouz called The Happy Man is a story that has great meaning. It is about a man who is a writer for a newspaper company and one morning he awakens and decides that he is very happy. He decides that he life is perfectly happy. Throughout the day he makes many decision and there is a sequence of events which are based on the fact that he has perfect happiness in his life. In fact it is the theme of the story. In my opinion perfect happiness is impossible and the man in this story proves it in the fact that he loses his will and heart to work or write, he loses his sympathy for the worlds problems, and he loses interest to be with people.
In the Happy Man after the man wakes up and feels very happy he finds out the he loses his passion to so his job. In the book he just decides he no longer wants to do his job. “Suddenly he felt that the office was too small for him; he had no desire to work.” (CD) These words sum it up. That small of a thing caused ...