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Anders is Ove's neighbor across the street who owns a towing company. He drives an Audi and dates a woman that Ove refers to as the Blond Weed. These factors lead Ove to ridicule him and refer to him as "the fop Anders." Later, he earns Ove's seal of approval by towing the man in the white shirt's Škoda. He breaks up with Blond Weed and begins a relationship with Lena.
Anders Quotes in A Man Called Ove
The A Man Called Ove quotes below are all either spoken by Anders or refer to Anders. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2 Quotes
Because nowadays people are all thirty-one and wear too-tight trousers and no longer drink normal coffee. And don't want to take responsibility. A shed-load of men with elaborate beards, changing jobs and changing wives and changing their car makes. Just like that. Whenever they feel like it.
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Page Number and Citation:
11
Explanation and Analysis:
On Ove's first afternoon of forced retirement, he looks out his window, watches his neighbor Anders jog, and thinks about how different his younger coworkers are. Anders is in many ways a symbol for the younger generation that Ove despises: he's divorced and has a younger girlfriend, and Ove doesn't know what his job is but assumes it's not something that he'd approve of. Ove is very uncomfortable with how the world has changed since he moved into his row house 40 years ago. Ove believes that members of the younger generation don't have the same sense of fairness and principles that he has. He sees them as flighty and irresponsible because they don't remain loyal to their job, spouse, or home for 40 years as Ove has done. Because of this, Ove sees them as unreachable and wholly different from himself—giving himself a justification to not engage with his community.
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Anders Character Timeline in A Man Called Ove
The timeline below shows where the character Anders appears in A Man Called Ove. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
2. (Three Weeks Earlier) A Man Called Ove Makes His Neighborhood Inspection
...to turn out like this. Ove stands in his living room and watches his neighbor, Anders, jog outside. Anders drives an Audi and bought his house with a loan, and Ove...
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15. A Man Called Ove and a Delayed Train
...Services and soon both Ove and Rune will be placed in homes. Weed gets into Anders' Audi and Ove wants to destroy the car, but he suddenly feels out of breath....
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34. A Man Called Ove and a Boy in the House Next Door
...plan. Patrick hobbled out the door and came back again a few minutes later with Anders and Jimmy. Anders hesitantly explained that he owns a towing company and also that he...
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35. A Man Called Ove and Social Incompetence
...spent the last few nights in Patrick and Parvaneh's kitchen with Jimmy, Mirsad, Adrian, and Anders, formulating a plan to help Rune. After a few nights, Ove made a phone call.
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...and he asks who's going to take care of him, and Ove, Parvaneh, Patrick, Jimmy, Anders, and Adrian appear behind her and say that they will. The man looks suspicious. Lena...
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37. A Man Called Ove and a Lot of Bastards Sticking Their Noses In
...and looked just as grumpy when he saw the paper. Lena giggled that she and Anders were going skating, and Ove closed the door on her. He cleaned up junk mail...
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39. A Man Called Ove
...let Parvaneh follow Ove's stretcher into the operating room and it takes Patrick, Jimmy, Mirsad, Anders, Adrian, and four nurses to keep her from following. She overturns benches and screams at...
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A Man Called Ove and an Epilogue
...cell phone with a camera, preferring physical photos instead. By fall, Lena moves in with Anders and Ove backs their moving van in for them. The next spring, Ove shows Sonja...
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