Miscommunication In Allan Moore's The Diary

Dishonesty, deception, and misunderstandings are common reasons to cause conflict, but also avoid it. Allan Moore’s “The Diary”, allows us to see how secrets and miscommunication can cause a simple action of putting a dog to sleep to thinking a murder is soon to happen. In the short story, curiosity killed the cat, Ted reads his wife, Agnes’s diary and his misunderstood yet believed that his own love would kill him.In Ted’s perspective, Agne showed more affection toward her dog, so why kill the creature? Mariticide [the killing of one’s husband] isn’t a strange subject. In fact, half the time, the husband or wife is the killer of the murder. Soon after, he noticed the origin of their arguments came from the lying and the lack of communication from, mostly, Agnes. Although Ted to extreme “precautions”, he tried to express his love even more toward his wife. Their lack of communication, misinterpretations, and poisoning of lies, turned an ordinary guy to a paranoid mess; although most readers loathe Ted's reaction, he’s worthy of sympathy.

Agnes’s falsehood primarily commenced the problems and destruction of the …show more content…
When Ted wrongly invaded Agnes diary and misinterpreted what she wrote, he got the wrong image about Agnes actions. In Ted's point of view, If Agnes were to kill old thing it wouldn't be the dog. During his thought process he states, “ why couldn't I be like that old dog of hers she loved him” (14). That old dog was there for Agnes from the start, so why would she kill her practically best friend. Agnes avoided the whole situation. They were both confuse and more conflicting toward each other out for different reasons. By the way she described the situation, it sounded similar to her issues with Ted. Details were lost when processing the situations. To truly understand what was going on, Ted needed those details, unfortunately Agnes’s lips were