Utsa Me 4 Year Plan

Marwin Lopez

Davern

English 1301-206

15 September 2009

Moonface

Repugnant

The narrator illustrates morally repugnant behavior throughout this story. John Claverhouse, a rather spirited person, creates this hate within the narrator produced by the happy emotions shown constantly by Claverhouse. Claverhouse expresses these feelings through his laugh, which completely irritates the narrator trapping him in a circle of pure loathe and jealousy. Thus hate is created which consumes the narrator leading to Claverhouse’s death.

"I do not like that man." Those were the words from the narrator, illustrating his dislike towards John Claverhouse. Claverhouse lived his life with no anger, just mere happiness. He would always express these happy feelings inside of him simply by laughing. The narrator despised him for that. That cheerful laugh was what drove the narrator to a point of jealousy, another reason that created the hate that consumed the narrator, causing him to commit immoral acts towards Claverhouse such as burning his haystacks and barn. "Ha! Ha! Ho! Ho!" was Claverhouse's reaction towards the incident. This drove the narrator insane. Claverhouse really was just a man who lived in a world of happiness.

Throughout the entire story the narrator shows nothing but hate. He even mentions that he “used to laugh myself- before I met John Claverhouse.” This shows that there just really is a great amount of hate that the narrator has towards Claverhouse, but why would one hate a type of person such as Claverhouse? Should it be jealousy that he’s so happy? Or can it be that the person just simply doesn’t stand seeing happy emotions in people? To the narrator it was all these reasons which led him to create immoral acts towards Claverhouse.

One of these immoral acts from the narrator to Claverhouse was killing man’s best friend, dog. Mars, Claverhouse’s dog, was really close to Claverhouse. The narrator of course saw this bond that they had so the hate that the narrator had towards Claverhouse drove him, the narrator, to of course try to damage this bond. The narrator killed Mars. Despite this evil act, Claverhouse acted as if it didn’t affect him. “His [Claverhouse] laugh was as hearty and frequent as ever, and his face as much like the full moon as it always had been.” The narrator was astonished and disappointed.