Living Like Weasels
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In this story the narrator begins to depict the life of a weasel, particularly of its behavior and instinct. The author writes “he bites his prey at the neck, either splitting the jugular vein at the throat or crunching the brain at the base of the skull” After explaining the weasels wild behavior the author goes on to reveal why the narrator (whether it is herself or someone else) has been studying weasels.
After the brief introduction on weasels the narrator describes how he/she came about of being face to face with a weasel. Then the narrator, after this episode that is broken by his/her winking reveals how he/she wishes to be like the weasel “ I would like to live as I should, as the weasel lives as he should”. Overall the story relates the life of the weasel with that of the human being, how they are different but at the same time how they the same. The weasel uses instinct as a necessity and human beings seek for purpose as their necessity. The author writes in the last paragraph “ I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you”