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Read January 28, 2025

I must admit that I wanted to give this story one star. It is really disgusting. However, Maupassant does raise some pertinent questions. Does evil enter your soul depending on what you allow yourself to be exposed to? Why is it so much easier to choose evil over good? Does becoming a highly respected man with an important position put one in danger of getting a God-complex whereupon anything done by oneself is permissible? Does lack of a family also come with a lack of balance and support and therefore allow one more propensity to become skewed or deranged?

So many questions, but just, ugh! Unlike some reviewers, I didn't ponder the question of the magistrate in the story being the "everyman". Perhaps I'm just naive but I could never see myself choosing this road of pure evil.