Captain Fellows shows and even thinks of himself as the total opposite of his wife, that he himself is the epitome of what we can start as in life. That he is as convinced of his values as he could be, and truly believed that "he really felt the correct emotions of love and joy and grief and hate. He had always been a good man at zero hour." But when confronted by the situation of having a priest on the run bedding at his house, he finds himself in inner turmoil, trying to convince himself that the priest is a danger, but finally giving in to his visceral, pious inner self. This allowed him to be redeemed by the priest, for he would have perished spiritually if he had not the religious contact that he had almost forgotten his hunger for. But after tasting that luscious morsel he realized how much he had missed it and brought his family to partake of this gift.
People will be human, so though they may be convinced of their own convictions, there will always be circumstances that will make them shy from these.
So is the lusious morsel religion? Like, in an extended metaphor with "hunger" in the sentance before it?
ReplyDeleteIn a way I disagree with you. I think Captain was still weary of the priest, and thinking that he was still kind of weird. Coral, on the other hand, I really admired for her percevierence. I kind of wonder how Fellows and his wife could be her parents...