This text really kept me reading to find out more. Not something I would have normally choose to read but I liked it.
"The man himself lay in the bed. For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin".(Faulkner,34)
When I read this my heart stopped. I was very shocked. The passage before set up for it but I was still not prepared. The word FLESHLESS jumped out at me while I was reading it and really made the mental image of this scene come alive. The passage reminded me of the movie "Stir of Echos" when the main character found a dead body in the wall. This passage really ties the whole story together. I was wondering where the text was going with the part about the bad smell and the arsenic part. It mentioned them then changed subjects so the passage really brings it together. At the end I was left asking Why would she kill him? Was it because she feared being alone, but if so wasn't she still left alone. Or did she have issues letting go, like separation anxiety?
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Nice analysis, Sam! The moment when the townspeople realize what has happened is surely the creepiest in the story. I think it's a little creepier than Stir of Echos where the killing was a cover-up. (That is a pretty creepy ghost movie, though!) Here the killing was part of the plan, which is weird. Nancy
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