After Dark | Themes
Just as it is hard to decide who the protagonist is (or if there is any protagonist at all) of After Dark, it is also difficult to find a major theme. There is the darkness of night and its companion of fear that, on one hand, seem to dominate the setting. But fear in this story is fleeting. The Chinese prostitute is obviously scared out of her mind. She has been beaten, she is in the Japan illegally, and she appears to be trapped in the underground of gangsters. She is bleeding from wounds inflicted by one of her customers, but she gains no sympathy from the man who controls...
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