After the death of Rowena, we begin to really understand the type of person Robert truly is. What we find as time passes is that he begins …show more content…
This shame, like many of this other feelings caused him to do things he would usually not feel comfortable doing. The most obvious example of this is when Robert has absolutely no desire to go to the brothel but yet, he does. For the fear that the others would think that he is a homosexual and then look down upon him, he is motivated by not only what others will think but how he will think of himself. The men pressure him into going and Robert cannot seem to overcome his shame and therefore, puts himself into an extremely uncomfortable position. In addition, we see Robert feel an overwhelming sense of shame again, when he is sexually assaulted in his room. When the men leave him he is overcome with emotion and frantically begins destroying his room looking for his gun. Then, he burns the only picture he has with him of his beloved sister. This can be interpreted as trying to save her from the cruelty of humanity, and because of the shame he feels towards himself and the rest of the world, this is his act of “charity”. Clearly, that is a strange thing to do, but given the past events and the immense amount of suffering he had experienced, his mind was in a very unhealthy