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22 October, 15:19

Why does the narrator continue to allow the man to hit him on the head with an umbrella in Sorrentino's "There's a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella"?

The narrator is prohibited by court order from doing anything about it.

The narrator feels he does not have the right to take away the man's livelihood.

The narrator has grown accustomed to it and does not think he could live without it.

The narrator knows that if the man were to stop hitting him with an umbrella, the man would probably die.

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  1. 22 October, 15:40
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    "There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella" is a short story written by Fernando Sorrentino. This was published way back year 2001. In this story, the narrator describes this man who has been hitting him on the head with an umbrella. No matter what he does, the man just doesn't stop hitting him. The narrator continued to allow this because he feels that he has grown accustomed to it, and thinks that he could not live without it.
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