I truly enjoyed this story. The symbolism Fitzgerald uses is excellent.“It can be two bicycle policemen as easily, or be a bird. Or it can have a wide snout like a hyena.” This is one of the main ones that caught my eye. I first I thought the bird was a symbol of his death. When I reached the end of the story I changed my mind to the hyena. The way he described death coming for him just reminded me of the hyena closing in on the camp. Then he says he feels as though something was sitting on his chest starring him in the face. I pictured nothing more than the hyena taking his last breath. A old wife's tell also comes to mind of a ct crawling in the baby crib taking the babies breath because of the milk the baby has drank.
I also think that than man in the story was a very sad confused man. He had a wife that loved him like no other, yet he could not love her because she was nothing more than a sick experiment he was creating.
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