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Blind Owl, PURE SPECULATION, C (C, C, O), Potentially the narrator's…

- - - - DEATH
    - - Similar to how the bent old man might draw from the ethereal girl?
  - - - Uncle: "Indian turban" "ragged yellow cloak" "Hairy chest" "scarf wrapped around his neck"
        
        References to Indian clothing
        
        Suggests that the original person that inspired the bent old man could originate from India(not very insightful)
        
        References in general to India
        
        uncle also related to India
        
        commerce: sells pen case for the narrator in India
        
        Similar to the description of the Butcher and the old man selling wares in front of his house
    - - Occurs when the old man helps the narrator bury the girl
      - Occurs when the narrator's uncle laughs at the narrator when his wife suddenly starts kissing him
      - Occurs when the old man appears in the mirror for the second time
      - Occurs when the narrator's father and uncle undergo the trial
    - - 2 skeleton-thin horses
        
        Parallel description of the two times that the narrator rides the skeleton horses
        
        Allusion to Death, one of the 4 horsemen (over-analysis but it be death)
      - a hearse with a hole in the center for holding a coffin
      - Narrator constantly tries to offer the old man a payment of two krans and one abbasi in return for his services
        
        Old man refuses, constantly replies that "I know where you live"
        
        Uneasiness - loss of the sense of security that a home offers
      - Offers a vase to the narrator
        
        Drawing on the vase is described as being identical to the drawing he made of the ethereal woman
        
        Is the bent old man imagined? He returns magically returns the vase to the narrator as the narrator leaves the site of burial
    - - Bone Knife
        
        Oddly specific tool for cutting up corpse
        
        Used to cut up meat in the butcher shop
        
        Used to cut up the body
      - Butcher Shop
        
        gets goat carcasses from two gaunt horses
        
        Cutting up meat with a bone-handled knife and with "an exquisite pleasure"
        
        The wife is described as torturing the narrator with an "exquisite pleasure"
        
        (lots of torture too)
      - Creep
      - Condensation of narrator's issues with feminine figures and emasculation
      - When sick, describes himself as having "cheeks crimson like the meat that hangs outside butchers' shops
      - Hates everyone
    - - He then may apply the image to all people that he sees
  - - - Eyes as part of the girl that attracts the narrator "magnetic eyes"
  - - - Girl referenced as Hindu Temple Dancer
        
        Baghram Dasi?
        
        Ethereal girl as a projection of narrator's mother?
      - idealized
        
        heavenly/transcendence
        
        purity
        
        Others cannot lay eyes on her otherwise she will die/disappear
        
        Sexually desirable to the narrator
      - Separation of the ethereal girl from the bitch of a wife; likely a separation of one person into two
      - Unable to assert male dominance --> wants to return to his state in the womb
        
        The ethereal girl as a fusion of the motherly nature of his mother and his mommy issues, as well as his idolizing of his wife
      - Cutting up the girl with a bone-handled knife
  - - - Relates both the old man and woman
  - - - "Her soft, relaxed muscles, her veins and sinews and bones...a dainty meal for the worms and rats of the grave"
      - "Tiny maggots were wriggling on her body"
      - "amid a mass of coagulated blood and swarming maggots, two great black eyes...my entire being was submerged in the depths
  - - - Links to the preacher that "by the process of reciting a few words in Arabic over us" (p. 63)
      - Links to the death of the narrator's aunt and how the koran was placed on her chest, linking to the core traumatic moment
    - - Firstly with his Uncle laughing at him for lusting for his wife
      - Then is the laughter after the murder
- - - - Central themes presented through the links
      - Miscellaneous
- - - - Narrator wants to understand himself and to make himself known to his shadow on the wall
        
        Narrator comments that he draws pen cases
        
        uncle comes, to cater to his guest the narrator goes to get wine
        
        Sees the mirage in the wall, shocked
        
        Narrator walks around the neighborhood
        
        Girl appears outside the narrator's room
        
        1 more item...
        
        Uncle resembles father, the narrator and the bent old man
        
        Fear and terror stem from old man's 'hollow', grating laughter
        
        Oddly specific Imagery with numerous references to personal experiences (source of trauma) "Bent old man squatting under a cypress tree with a turban (like an Indian fakir) with finger pressed to his lips looking at a young girl in a long black dress across a stream who is offering a flower of morning glory to him"
- - - - Chapter 3
        
        Chapter 4
        
        Chapter 5
        
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