For instance, when Wilfred tells the sheriff his wife ran off, the sheriff advises him to beat some obedience into her if she comes back. The worst part about Wilfred’s misogyny is the fact-of-life way it is perceived by him and the rest of the community.
“1922” introduces Full Dark, No Stars’s motif of violence against women.
Henry ending: penning the confession before his suicide, Wilfred hallucinates that rats are biting him and dies by chewing his own wrists open. He even loses his confession in a bitterly ironic, O. Though he asserts his justification for the murder to the very end, it’s difficult not to sympathize with someone who loses everything. Haunted by guilt, Wilfred comes to believe the ghost of his wife Arlette is actually haunting him. Akin to Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” it is the confession of a murder from the mind of an unstable man. It is also the most carefully constructed and the only one told in first person voice.
Review: “1922” is the longest of the stories, but every word is worth it. As the years after the murder unravel in a host of unforeseen events - including rat infestation, teen pregnancy, and the Great Depression - Wilfred loses his son, the farm he killed for and eventually his sanity. Worse, he turns his son against his mother and makes him an accessory to the crime. Rather than let her sell her father’s 100 acres to a hog-butchering company, Wilfred butchers her instead and throws the body down the well. Summary: “1922” begins the quartet with the confession of a Nebraska farmer who murders his wife. These and other themes and motifs - including violence against women and the burden of keeping secrets - tie the quartet together. Having discovered her husband’s secret, Darcy from “A Good Marriage” discovers that she can keep secrets as well. Tess of “Big Driver” differentiates between the “Old Tess” before she was raped and the “New Tess” she is now. Wilfred from “1922” calls his murderous half “The Conniving Man,” thus avoiding complete responsibility for his crimes. Each tale deals with the theme of retribution: “1922” where the ghost of a murdered wife drives her husband insane “Big Driver” where a woman hunts down her rapist “Fair Extension” where a deal with the Devil lets a dying man get revenge on his successful, lucky best friend and “A Good Marriage” where a wife brings her own type of justice to her serial killer husband.Īnother important theme is the hidden person inside every person - the braver, crueller, more devious, kinder or simply stranger person that lives inside everyone and surfaces under dire circumstances. While this is a four-story collection, each story in “Full Dark, No Stars” is thematically linked.
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