In the previous review I talked about Dahl’s stories which are concerned with the matter of a woman seeking revenge on a man. In this review, I would like to talk about Dahl’s stories in which the male sex gets revenge on the female sex. This time the person seeking revenge is a man and his victim is a woman. The stories I can think of now are “Edward the Conqueror”, “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”, and “Nunc Dimittis”.
For example, the narrator of “Nunc Dimittis” happens to hear through some acquaintance that his girlfriend Janet spoke ill of him. What Janet said seems trifling, seen from the viewpoint of an outsider, but the narrator doesn’t think so.
“I can remember with what terrifying swiftness my hatred of Janet de Palagia now began to grow. It all happened in a few minutes---a sudden, violent welling up of a hatred that filled me till I thought I was going to burst. I tried to dismiss it, but it was on me like a fever, and in no time at all I was hunting around, as would some filthy gangster, for a method of revenge.”
And he finds a very singular method of revenge and succeeds in taking revenge on her. But the story does not end thus. A much more terrifying revenge she takes on him is waiting for him. In the end of “Edward the Conqueror”, too, there is a suggestion that the same thing could happen to the man.
In the case of “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”, the woman’s revenge is not clearly described, but I don’t think it possible that the woman accepts the situation, as it is. What I felt about Dahl’s stories of a man getting revenge on a woman is that In the previous review I talked about Dahl’s stories which are concerned with the matter of a woman seeking revenge on a man. In this review, I would like to talk about Dahl’s stories in which the male sex gets revenge on the female sex. This time the person seeking revenge is a man and his victim is a woman. The stories I can think of now are “Edward the Conqueror”, “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”, and “Nunc Dimittis”.
For example, the narrator of “Nunc Dimittis” happens to hear through some acquaintance that his girlfriend Janet spoke ill of him. What Janet said seems trifling, seen from the viewpoint of an outsider, but the narrator doesn’t think so.
“I can remember with what terrifying swiftness my hatred of Janet de Palagia now began to grow. It all happened in a few minutes---a sudden, violent welling up of a hatred that filled me till I thought I was going to burst. I tried to dismiss it, but it was on me like a fever, and in no time at all I was hunting around, as would some filthy gangster, for a method of revenge.”
And he finds a very singular method of revenge and succeeds in taking revenge on her. But the story does not end thus. A much more terrifying revenge she takes on him is waiting for him. In the end of “Edward the Conqueror”, too, there is a suggestion that the same thing could happen to the man.
In the case of “Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat”, the woman’s revenge is not clearly described, but I don’t think it possible that the woman accepts the situation as it is. What I feel about Dahl’s stories of a man getting revenge on a woman is that a man could never outdo a woman when it came to revenge.
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