Philosophical Reviews: The Witch (Shirley Jackson)
Most people believe that a boy of four years old is immune to evil, in every of is action there is good,such as taking care of his little sister.
He has no intention to make her little sister to suffer, everything seems perfect.
There is the sensation that the train carriage is a place that protects the family from any kind of threat.
The link with the external world is the train window, the young boy will see a witch who wants to eat him.
No place is immune to evil, an old man will sit close to the young boy, there is a feeling for evil.
At the end of the story the little boy will say to his mother if the old man was joking and if he was a witch.
The old man is a projection of Johnny in his adult life. He will kill her sister an we he will smoke a cigar.
My dilemma is how this fact will shape his personality; will he be a saint or a killer?
If yes, the old man is a camouflage of good?
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