"The
Rats in the Walls" is a little hard for me to understand. Do they find a
new world underneath his house? It seems so vast and impossible, yet maybe that
is why it makes it so eerie. Is it the underworld? Did they
practice cannibalism? What is also confusing to me is the Neanderthal or
pre-human bones that they find. What is the relevance of it? I don't understand
the reason there would be prehistoric bones there. Also, it seems as if the
main character goes crazy at the end. He fits in with the women Gothic genre
because he was a single father raising his son, which is the roll of the woman
back then, and also is set in the private sphere of life, inside the house that
he has renovated. I thought it interesting that they would make a man just as vulnerable
to the deterioration of the mind as the "feeble" woman is. It
seems as if he goes back in history, something he can’t escape when he starts
to eat Capt. Norrys, since his ancestors seem to practice eating people in a
Satanic place under the earth and away from all eyes that judged and feared.
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