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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by careful planning because the best

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laid plans of mice and murderous lunatics eso often go

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straight All right first read the following passage True Yeah

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impossible Now this point you fancy mad men able get

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a room Come on fine all right okay enough mumbling

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the information the narrator presents And the excerpt leaves the

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reader to believe that after the old man wakes up

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the narrator will what Okay When predicting future behavior it's

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useful to consider past precedent That cat that loathes you

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passionately well price still gonna buy just now for the

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past week the only thing that's kept our narrator from

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committing cold blooded murder is the fact that he can't

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see an old man's eye his sworn enemy So now

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that the old man is finally up and his evil

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eyes open what's the likeliest outcome Well maybe the narrator

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could exhibit some more psychopathic kindness and invite the man

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for teeth Or he could ask the old man how

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he's been sleeping But given that the narrator's sole motive

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for murder is now staring him in the face well

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that doesn't seem too likely It also doesn't seem probable

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that our narrator would just suddenly aboard his master plan

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and go to sleep Because now that the old man's

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awake and his evil eyes open all obstacles or clear

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the plan is a go and everything is well set

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for takeoff the narrator doesn't have to worry about troublesome

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guilt pangs and he could get down to the wholesale

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business of good old fashioned american cold blooded murder B

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is correct the narrator is about to finish his work

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If only the old man would have slept with one

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eye open learn well On second thought That probably wouldn't 00:01:52.802 --> [endTime] help

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