It's Time To Wash Your Bedding.
We're back with another spooky story and literary analysis! This story gave me such whiplash and some terrifying imagery that I can't get out of my mind in the best way possible. Our class discussed a lot of different interpretations, so I'm sharing my take now. The Feather Pillow by Horacio Quiroga was a thrilling and macabre tale with so many possible meanings. I had never heard of it before we read in class, so the ending was a whip-lash-level shock that I did not see coming. What seems like a story of a young couple, Alicia and Jordan who were recently wed, quickly dissolves into a tragic and then horrifying story about death and a blood-sucking pillow monster. We discussed whether the monster at the end that kills Alicia is meant to be figurative (what does it stand for? Is there a bigger meaning behind it?) or literal (it’s just a weird monster.). My figurative take is Jordan, the husband, is described as having a “rough character” and that he “loved her profoun...