The
hobbyist
Riassunto e analisi
The hobbyist deals
with a murderer who went to a druggist to have an undetectable poison for his
murder, because he heard a rumour about this druggist. The druggist said Mr
Sangstrom (the murderer) to tell him the way of the murder. When Mr Sangstrom
talk about the story and he said that he would kill his wife, the druggist
prepared two coffee to invite him. When Mr Sangstrom had quite finished, he
asked the druggist to give him the poison, but the druggist had already put the
poison in Mr Sangstrom's coffee. Mr Sangstrom pulled a pistol from his pocket,
but the druggist wasn't worried because he had the antidote. Mr Sangstrom said
to give him the antidote, but the druggist obliged Mr Sangstrom to write a confession of his intention to murder his wife and
after, the druggist had been going to send it to a friend. And he obliged Mr
Sangstrom to give him 1000 dollars for the antidote. His hobby was preventing
murders.
The narrator is the
first person narrator and he's omniscient. The setting is the pharmacy. The
most important characters are the druggist and Mr Sangstrom. The druggist was a
gnome like, gnarled little mean who could have been any age from fifty to a
hundred. He was very clever and mysterious. For example he said Mr Sangstrom
that the poison was freely and after ha wanted a lot of money for the antidote.
During the story he used the irony. It's the difference between what it said
and what it meant. The druggist has helped many murderers not to commit their crimes.
Mr Sangstrom didn't understand the irony. The word used ambiguously in the
story was 'deserve' because the druggist said Mr Sangstrom that he deserved the
poison. Mr Sangstrom fales in understand what the
druggist really meant. Infect the druggist won the game. The action last for an
hour. This is a crime story because we know the murder from the beginning. The
climax and the turning point are when the druggist said Mr Sangstrom that he
had already put the poison in his coffee. In this story the events are in
chronological and lineal order.
