THE MAN WHO LOVED FLOWERS.
This is the title of an essay that takes place in New York one evening in May 1963. It is a third person narrator in the essay that leads readers through what is happening this evening in and around the young man who is "The Man Who Loved Flowers".
Summary: This is a wonderful and beautiful spring evening and it is on the brink of summer. It is in the twilight time and the sky is beautiful violet. People are out on the street in the good weather, and they are all happy. The young man is walking down the street and an old lady who pushes two bags in an old pram, yells at him. "Hey beautiful”. The young man welcomes back, and she thinks that he is in love. She gets happy and nostalgic, while she thinks that all can be beautiful such a spring evening, when they are on their way to the only one. The young man goes over the Sixty-third Street and passes a handcart filled with many fragrant flowers. It is an old man who is selling flowers, and right now he eats a pretzel. He has a radio, where news can be heard, but nobody listens to it. The news is that a hammer killer is on the loose and that an unidentified woman has been fished up from the East River. Otherwise, it is about Vietnam, a jury error in relation to a heroin boss and a Russian nuclear test. The young man hesitates, as he marks with his hand in his jacket pocket. Here he looks surprised, lonely and devastated, but quickly turns back to smile. He returns to the flower wagon, to buy flowers that he may surprise Norma with. Flower vendor is influenced by the young man's smile, and he remembers how it was like to be in love. The Flower vendor and the young man is talking cheerfully about flowers and prices, and the old man gives the young people advice in choosing flowers for the young man's beloved. It ends with two red, two yellow and two white tea roses. They are wrapped. The vendor tells how flowers can last longer, and the young man promises to tell it on. He knows how happy she is for gifts. He must give her a kiss from the florist. Two men with beer belly, who has been standing a little from there, throwing coins are smiling and one is offering to sell his wedding ring cheap, because he no longer wants it himself. It makes the young man to blush and laugh. In the radio the speaker says that the weather could turns into romantic evening where one might look at the stars. The radio plays “Sherry" by the Four Seasons, which invites the beloved to come out and dance in the moonlight, and she makes him crazy, but that she can tell her mother that it's okay. The young man goes back further, he is attentive and eager, but do not record so much that happens around him. What he sees has all to do with families, such as two pregnant women, a mother and a baby, a girl who rhymes about love, marriage and baby carriage. Finally, there are some men who looks at a baseball game on color TV through a shop window. Others noticed the young men, including two pregnant women who look after him, and think that it is long since they have received flowers. A police officer helps him crossing the street, and the officer can see the dreamy expression the young man has. Is the same as when he looks at himself in the mirror, as a new engaged. Two teenage girls giggle as they walk past him but he is untouched.
He turns right into a darker street when he comes to the Seventy-third Street, and he ends up in a narrow lane. The lane is dark, with many garbage cans and screaming male cats. It's quarter over eight and Norma should be there. He sees her dressed in dark blue pants and a sailor blouse and she looks so young. His heart ache every time he sees her the first time. She smiles, but as they get closer his smile faded, and for him, her face blurred. He comes into doubt that he has been wrong, but convinces himself that it is Norma. He gives her the flowers, but she gives them back and says that he is wrong. She tries to tell him her name but he whispers: "Norma". Norma has been dead for ten years. She screams and he takes up the hammer from his jacket pocket and beats her repeatedly. He hits her to beat the scream of death. The flowers are now scattered by the garbage bins.
This he has done five times previously. Now it is completely dark. He put the hammer back in his pocket and goes into the dark streets. He smiles and he knows that his name is "Love". At Seventy-third Street a middle-aged married couple sees him, and she misses her husband coming home with that type of smile. She thinks that there is only one thing that is better than spring, and it is love.

Description and characterization of the protagonist: The young man has a dark hair, cut short He has a not characteristic face with bright color and blue eyes. He wears a gray suit, is casual dress with a shirt that is not buttoned up to his throat and a loose tie. He walks with a bounce in his step, which shows he is targeted to where he's going. The people he meets, he is polite to. He has a smile on his lips and a charisma that makes him seem confident, and everybody can see that he is in love. He exudes so much passion that he affects his surroundings, both young and old. They become happy and associations with their own love affairs and dreams. It's a beautiful spring evening, which is just about to jump out to be summer. Just seems the young man to be just about to jump out of his passion
When the young man passes the flower cart, we get another side of him; He is lonely and he might be a killer. He hears on the radio that a hammer murderer is wanted, and that an unidentified dead woman has been fished out of the East River. He hears the news, while others around him are not aware of it. He hesitates, thinking about and looking over his shoulder, which may indicate a degree of uncertainty in him at that moment. His facial expression also changes, so he seems puzzled, lonely and almost haunted. He feels for something in his pocket and this gets his facial expression to change once again to have the contagious smile and expression, and it is now combined with expectations in him. Flowers cart he returns to is predominantly filled with yellow flowers. Yellow is the color of jealousy, which gives associations to the young man who is jealous. He buys a bouquet of flowers for his beloved Norma, which consists of two red, two white and two yellow tea roses. The red color is the color of love, he loves her. The white color is a symbol of her purity and innocence and the yellow color shows his jealousy. As the man with beer belly offers his wedding ring, the young man comes to blush, which shows his love. When he comes to the darker neighborhood, we observed the darker side of him. He meets a girl whom he sees as Norma, but it is not. Norma has been dead for ten years. Since it is not Norma, and when she gets scared and screams, he beats her to death with what he has in his pocket, namely a hammer. The hammer in the pocket gives him reassurance. He can handle himself when he has the hammer. At the same time, this hammer is also associations with a heart pounding. He bangs for Norma. He has done this five times, so he is a mass murderer, although he does not use a real murder weapon. The hammer comes back into his pocket, and he radiates love, it's his way to live out "love".