With the Eyes Shut

Edward Bellamy’s Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment opens with Joseph who is ill in bed. He reads the story of a man wrongly accused of murder, He is really impressed by it so that he identifies himself with him. When his sister tells him that a man was killed in their barn, he begins to behave oddly, and keeps repeating “it was not me”. He is very agitated, pale and frightened. The family begins to grow suspicious until the murderer is found...

Avainsanat: With the Eyes Shut, Edward Bellamy, Faligi