I listened on the radio to an astronaut reading passages aloud from Marguerite Duras from his space station to his earthbound audience below. Bookstores still held their ground here among the shopfronts, and the deification of French writers living and dead was evinced everywhere in street names and statues and advertising hoardings for new novels. It was pleasant, I had often been told, for a writer to live somewhere where reading and writing were accorded the highest respect, and it was true that - in Paris at least - these were semipublic activities: In every park and cafe, on the Metro and on the benches along the Seine, people were openly engaged in what for me had always been the most private and solitary of occupations. Scott Fitzgerald’s observation that “France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older - intelligence and good manners,” we packed up our possessions during the last dark days of one December and decided to move to Paris. In the end, the murderer’s faulty logic and rationality are defeated by the return of morality.Perhaps with no clearer motive than F. At the end, balance is re-established when either the heart begins beating loudly once more, allowing the crime to be solved and the criminal punished. However, the narrator kills the source of the heartbeat, symbolically destroying their better nature. This could mean the protagonist’s rational or moral side is trying to stop the crime. Right before the murder, the narrator hears a loud heartbeat and assumes it is the old man’s. Thus, it could be seen as a representation of morality. The heart is often interpreted as a symbol of a person’s ability to feel emotions, such as love.
The narrator’s obsession with the old man’s eye and its subsequent suggest that they have lost their ability to reason. In this story the eye could represented the ability to think rationally.
The eyes are traditionally considered windows to the soul, but they also allow people to observe and interact with the surrounding world.
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