It Had to Be Muder Reflection

In short, this story is about how the narrator uncovers the crime of a husband killing his wife by preying from the bay window. Preying is an interesting perspective, since it’s something that everyone has a chance to do but won’t practice because of lacing of patience. Much proportion of the story is about observation and reasoning, also psychological activities of the narrator, which make readers get bored, since the progress of the story is too slow. Also, before it turned out that the narrator was right, the author makes me feel that this is all caused by the hallucination of the narrator, since the police officer helped with verifying the suspicion for so many times without finding any evidence of the crime. Although the main plot is quite formulaic as a detective story: the hero captures the trivial “feeling” of crime, whilst everyone else finds not a thing, and finally it turns out that the hero is correct; this story is slight different from a traditional detective story. Firstly, the narrator is not a detective that is experienced and always with aplomb; in fact, he hesitated for a long time whether he should make himself involved in the event. Secondly, the ways the narrator investigates the event are much different than what a “just crime fighter” would do. Actually, what he does is quite creepy: preying from the window from day to night, using personal relationship to ask police to have an indoor investigation, sending anonymous letter, asking Sam to intrude the room of the men, etc. In summary, the skeptical personality of the narrator and the special perspective distinguish this short story.

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