| “But Wilson stood there a long time, his face close to
the window pane, nodding into the twilight.”
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There
are many ways that one can interpret Wilson’s nod.
It may be just an absent-minded gesture, an unthinking motion of
the head resulting from Wilson’s rather traumatic evening.
On the other hand, the last four words of this quotation may be
extremely significant. In
nodding into the oncoming night, Wilson is welcoming himself into the
darkness. He us now aware
of what he must do and what he is now, in his present state of mind,
capable of committing. He
has accepted his chore of taking revenge on whoever killed his wife and
stole her from him. Wilson’s
new attitude might be connected to the doubt of God that is proposed in
the lines preceding the above quotation.
If God is just an advertisement, is it Wilson’s right and duty
to take the punishment of his wife’s murderer into his own hands?
If we are certain that we will face no repercussions in the end,
should we and can we do whatever we wish?
It seems like Wilson has chosen to defy any idea of God and
accept this new darkness. He
has withdrawn from any fear of punishment and, in nodding into the
twilight, has made is choice.
By: Jessica Saltiel |