The writer also adds character to the story by describing it in more detail e.g. -‘The wind HARASSES the sea REMORSELESSLY’ and also “The widow Saverini’s house, clinging to the very edge of the cliff, had three windows opening on to this wide desolate view.”
When the writer brings out detail from the character of the old woman, you can make out that she is quite a dark character by the way he writes “She shed no tears” this is when her sons body has been brought to her .He also writes that she has wrinkled hands and cold lips, the writer also states that vowed vengeance, refused anybody to stay with her and shut herself up with the body of her deceased son and the howling dog. This might show that she only cares about vengeance upon her son’s death as she shuts herself away from society and so determinedly vowels vengeance.
The old woman figures out an idea, she goes to church to find strength to carry out her act of revenge, she humbles herself towards god hoping she might get support for the sin which she is going to commit and maybe forgiveness as she knows she was going against gods way.
The way the old widow takes revenge is to starve her dog until it becomes a cold killer, every three or four days, tempting it daily while its tied up she makes a dummy out of straw and embeds bloody sausage into its neck, feeding the dog this way she trained the dog to ruthlessness attack the dummy’s neck by using the words get’em and so the dog would attack the straw dummy’s neck. This method of taking vengeance shows that she does not care about anything but killing her son’s murderer but she needs the dogs help as she is to weak, as she changes the dogs character to be a vicious killer by training her over the three months of harsh starvation and dedication.
She then takes the emaciated dog to the work place of hr son’s murderer and sets the dog upon him, wrenching at his throat, tearing it to ribbons.
When the old widow had finished her task of taking revenge she could rest peacefully and slept soundly, this shows how caught up in obsession to take revenge she was.
