Insanity In 'The Hoarder And Stab'

There are a lot things in the world that are considered to be insane. For example, becoming obsessed with your brother’s girlfriend like in the story “The Hoarder” by Bradford Morrow, or “Stab” by Chris Adrian where a girl murders animals and tries to murder a child. These things to us seem to be insane because they are out of the ordinary. Things like this don’t happen on a daily basis but they do happen we just don’t know about them. In this essay, I will explain how the behavior within each story contribute to insanity, what makes us come to the conclusion that it is insanity, and the point both authors make that it is a source of madness. In the story “Stab” there is a boy named Calvin who loses his twin brother,Colm , to cancer. This …show more content…
He collects a lot of things and put them into his collection. He lives with his father, Tom, his, brother, and his sister Molly. Him and Tom don’t get along that much unlike him and sister they have a better sibling relationship. He works at a miniature golf course so he could have a job even though he lied about his age and background. He loves the miniature golf course because he could enter the windmill and be in his own world without anyone noticing he was there. He would spy on couples that were on a date(“The Hoarder by Bradford Morrow”). One day when he was at the windmill he was surprised to see his brother there with a girl. He found that her name is Penny and her brother’s girlfriend. He seems to grow an obsession with her by the way she looks and wishes that she wasn’t into his brother. Later in the story it is Tom’s birthday and he received a camera. He decided to take the camera because he thinks his brother is not going to use it. He takes pictures of Penny during the day and afternoon when she is not with Tom. Every photo he took he kept it in a cigar box in a duffel bag in the corner of the windmill. He then started to take nude photos of her and kept them as well. When the camera got back into Tom’s possession he is blamed for taking the photos even though it was his brother who did it. Tom soon found out that he was taking photos of his girlfriend he found him at the beach and began to slap …show more content…
We can see that because the things that happened in them we see them as unusual. Even though it makes them happy it makes the us, the readers, feel uncomfortable about what they are doing. Trying to bring back people who have passed away is entirely impossible. It is not normal to sacrifice others in order to bring back someone from the dead. Taking pictures of people without them noticing is not normal it’s creepy and weird; Killing your sibling and attempting to kill their significance other is beyond insane. From all the events that happened in each story we can mark the characters as insane. From both stories I think both authors are saying that anything can cause someone to experience madness. The source of madness is something that is inside all of us. Sometimes it can bring out who we really are. There a lot of ways that madness can be brought out of us. It can be something from the past or it could be something that happened in the present. There is always a time where we might have our insane moment but they might become