Fear In Gary's 'Man In The Black Suit'

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"Man in the Black Suit" Short Essay This main theme that I noticed in this story is fear, Gary is constantly living in fear since the moment he met the man in the black suit. The incident takes place when Gary is 9 years old, but he writes this story when he is about 90. He is writing because he says it gives him freedom and release although he doesn’t think anyone will believe that he met the devil. The first example of his fear is when he wakes up from his sleep and notices a bee on his nose. The bee shows up quite a bit in the story, because his brother died from a bee sting the summer before. Also the devil told Gary that he mother had just been stung and killed by a bee. Gary was scared by the bee on his nose, and suddenly believed that it was the same exact bee that had killed his brother. He knew that this was impossible, but convinced himself that it was some sort of special “devil-bee”. Then he heard someone clap and saw the bee died instantly. …show more content…
He described the man as a horrifying creature who “was on fire inside, and his eyes were like the little isinglass portholes you sometimes see in stove doors.” Gary was so frightened that he even wet his pants, “my bladder let go, and the scuffed brown the dead bee was lying on went a darker brown.” Gary knew that this man was the Devil, and he was scared for his life. “I suddenly knew that I was going to die, and probably painfully, but the worst of it was that that might not be the worst of it. The worst of it might come later. After I was dead.” Gary ended up running away after the Devil devoured the fish he had
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