[1] Response: "The Judgement" & "A Country Doctor"

After reading “The Judgement;” I don’t think George was insane, but he was really affected by the death of his mother. In the story, the father says, “But fortunately no one has to teach a father to see through his son.” That line really stands out to me. It reminds me a lot about my dad. Often society always shows mothers with their motherly instincts, but it isn’t always a mother who knows theirs child, fathers also have the same instincts, as well. So now the fact the mother is dead, and the father has to play the role, of both a mother and father, I believe the father had really been communicating with the friend in Russia.

“A Country Doctor,” I felt was more interesting than the other story. The life of a small village doctor is probably difficult. But the story also leaves behind a lot of questions. Questions about Rosa, and if shes okay, and if she previously knew the groomsman. When the doctor described the wound with the white worms, I presumed it to be he was referring to maggots, and more likely, the patient was probably working, outdoors, because they were axe marks, and he got injured, either accidentally, or intentionally, and the wound wasn’t treated immediately to because it had time for maggots to settle in. But there is more concern about Rosa. Does she get injured, or become a victim?