Gifts To The Dark Gods By Mary Mccluskey
Interpretation and analysis of Gifts to the Dark Gods by Mary McCluskey by Nanna March 2013.
When you hear the word “addiction” you will instantly think of addiction as a continued use of a mood altering substance, such as alcohol or drugs. That is the kind of addiction, people mostly hear and talk about.
But addiction can also be something you develop through time, a consequence of things you might have experienced or simply just a fun little habit, which has gotten out of control.
When I first laid eyes on the title of this story, I suddenly thought, that it might be a crucial horror story, about a person who sacrificed poor victims to some Satanic God, whom the main character believed in.
And I wasn’t that wrong. Surely, the story is not about a cold-blooded murder, who murders to please his or her Master, but it still is about a person, who collects things – material things, not dead people – so she can sacrifice them to the dark gods, so they will leave her alone and not hurt her.
If you try to look at Helen as a person who knows her, but doesn’t know her dark secret, you’d probably think of her as the woman who has everything. She has a lovely, strong husband, some happy children and a job where she gets to help bewildered teenagers. The family is a family of virtue and wealth. Her husband is a lawyer; …show more content…
One thing she lacks is independency from the hands of her husband. You could say, that he’s the breadwinner, the supporter of the household. After she quit her job, her husband told her, that she didn’t have to work anymore. They could easily afford it. She was now a lady of leisure. There’s another passage in the text, that can support my thoughts of the husband being the trigger to this shop-lifting; “’Busy day?’ he asks. ‘Hair appointment?’ He laughs. There’s a strange pride in the way he teases her about her empty, frivolous days. He is the sole breadwinner
When you hear the word “addiction” you will instantly think of addiction as a continued use of a mood altering substance, such as alcohol or drugs. That is the kind of addiction, people mostly hear and talk about.
But addiction can also be something you develop through time, a consequence of things you might have experienced or simply just a fun little habit, which has gotten out of control.
When I first laid eyes on the title of this story, I suddenly thought, that it might be a crucial horror story, about a person who sacrificed poor victims to some Satanic God, whom the main character believed in.
And I wasn’t that wrong. Surely, the story is not about a cold-blooded murder, who murders to please his or her Master, but it still is about a person, who collects things – material things, not dead people – so she can sacrifice them to the dark gods, so they will leave her alone and not hurt her.
If you try to look at Helen as a person who knows her, but doesn’t know her dark secret, you’d probably think of her as the woman who has everything. She has a lovely, strong husband, some happy children and a job where she gets to help bewildered teenagers. The family is a family of virtue and wealth. Her husband is a lawyer; …show more content…
One thing she lacks is independency from the hands of her husband. You could say, that he’s the breadwinner, the supporter of the household. After she quit her job, her husband told her, that she didn’t have to work anymore. They could easily afford it. She was now a lady of leisure. There’s another passage in the text, that can support my thoughts of the husband being the trigger to this shop-lifting; “’Busy day?’ he asks. ‘Hair appointment?’ He laughs. There’s a strange pride in the way he teases her about her empty, frivolous days. He is the sole breadwinner