![]() ![]() Still, she decided that it was part of the interesting aspects of a writer's work: "One of the great pleasures of reading and writing fiction is inhabiting worlds far from your own experience" (Roberts, 2018).Ĭontext is a key element for the reader to understand the story. Roberts explained how she found it challenging to portray situations and worries of people who had lived completely different situations in a time period she did not live through herself. From then on, the three characters' lives change, and they each have to adapt to their new reality of having to live a life they do not want. Unfortunately, they are unable to show their feelings to the world for fear of the consequences. Years later, Tom suddenly meets Patrick, a museum curator, and they fall madly in love. Tom had previously known that he is attracted to men, but due to the time period the book is set in, same-sex relationships were not accepted yet therefore, Tom had to come to terms with the reality that it would be best for him to marry a woman like Marion if he wished to be accepted in society. ![]() ![]() ![]() To summarize the plot of My Policeman: Marion, a schoolteacher, and Tom, a policeman, get married, yet this is not the future Tom expected for himself. ![]()
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