The Man In The Black Suit Analysis

“The Man in the Black Suit”: Response Paper The short story “The Man in the Black Suit,” written by Stephen King, is about a man named Gary who comes into contact with the Devil which still seems to haunt him as an old man. When the protagonist of “The Man in the Black Suit” is only nine years old fishing at a dwindling stream he encounters the father of lies. This stream was known as Castle Stream, located in a small isolated town in Motton, Maine, but now encompasses houses and businesses. Previously the town of Motton was isolated and lacked in communication as there were only but a dozen houses or so and the previous stream is only but a memory in Gary’s mind. It is there where Gary encounters a well-dressed man in a well pressed black
Besides his peculiar appearance, the infamous ability of the Devil to make anything he touches turn to death was the tale tell sign for little Gary to come to conclusion. As the Devil kneeled beside a fearful nine-year-old, he started to wet himself. The grass where the Devil fell back laughing satanically miraculously and immediately withered away as if the life was drained from the plants in a blink of an eye. After the Devil’s laughter subsided he informed Gary that his poor mother suffered the same fate as her son Dan, death from a bee sting. Gary says to the father of lies (the Devil) that he is lying, although in Gary’s mind all he could think of is that his mother was gone and gone for good. Gary has so much belief in this notion because of his loss of an older brother, Dan, so it wouldn’t be hard to accept that Gary’s mother could pass from the same cause. Even before Gary’s experience with the Devil, he believed that a bee bothering his afternoon fishing experience for “brookies” was the same bee that ended his brother’s life. Even though bees cannot live after they lose their stinger, and the protagonist knows this, Gary is still infatuated with the bee that ended his older brother’s