Greetings to your Ears and Eyes,
Warning, there are a handful of deaths referenced in this work. Natural deaths due to old age, as well as unfortunate circumstances, but death nonetheless.
Daniel Kasper PHD is with us in this episode to breakdown the nuances of Lucy Hardy’s writing. Here is a story that breaks from the orthodox tradition of presenting cause and effect morality, and instead shifts the morals further into the background for a more personal interpretation. What morals did you pick up in your listening of this story? How outdated is this story? Does the conclusion make up for the less scrupulous phrases and ideologies used throughout? How rattled were you by the deaths and post-mortem scenarios we witnessed in this story? Do you think that George Smyhte is innocent as Aunt Agatha believes? Let us know on Podchaser, Instagram, or Twitter.
The narration being done by the niece of the main character is atypical and seemingly unique to Lucy Hardy. The events, as narrated to us, are a telling of the narrator’s life, their own experiences of another’s life, the story of returning home to learn of the aunt’s life in their absence, and finally, the telling of what was learned as the end of Aunt Agatha’s Husband. This story skips out on the ghosts of the past, lurking around and the characters must appease them, or in some cases accept them and allow them to move on. However the suspense of the more sinister ending is always held over the reader, leaving us reading on to find how hard the shoe will land on the characters. Since the narrator is a witness, the protagonist is more of a surprise rather than the one one might expect.
Enjoy the rest of your day!
Daniel, Owen and Kari
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