Death
Death is obviously a central part of the novel, but it is treated quite casually. “There are five of us here in this room. One of us is the murderer” (Christie 171). At this point the mention of murder and death no longer surprises anyone. It is treated as something normal. They lay in their bed at night and that is it. This simplicity comes from the fact that the characters revert to a more primitive state when death becomes present in their everyday lives. When there's so many people dying there is no time for mourning, and life just has to go on. In addition, their own murderous pasts have brought them to this proximity with death. The characters have all killed other people so they are knowledgeable about death. Many of the characters,
Death is obviously a central part of the novel, but it is treated quite casually. “There are five of us here in this room. One of us is the murderer” (Christie 171). At this point the mention of murder and death no longer surprises anyone. It is treated as something normal. They lay in their bed at night and that is it. This simplicity comes from the fact that the characters revert to a more primitive state when death becomes present in their everyday lives. When there's so many people dying there is no time for mourning, and life just has to go on. In addition, their own murderous pasts have brought them to this proximity with death. The characters have all killed other people so they are knowledgeable about death. Many of the characters,