The Fly

The story of "flies" is very simple: when the boss's friend old Woodifield came to his office to chat he mentioned the boss's dead son. After his friend left the boss drowned a fly with ink. In such a simple story it contains the serious exploration of Mansfield's soul and deep thinking of the meaning of life.

The boss is lonely and sad. He is not so much immersed in the unforgettable pain of his son's death as unable to extricate himself from a strong and deep self pity. For him the whole significance of life seems to lie in the development of his career. When his son dies his career will die with his ageing. The meaning of life no longer exists. That's the real source of his frustration. The paranoid pursuit of career leads to the materialization of emotion. In the eyes of the boss career is more important than his son. It seems that the real pain is not the disappearance of a young life but the despair of no successor in his career.

"Fly" has many symbolic meanings. On the most obvious level it symbolizes the life of the weak and small but it can not escape death even if it tries its best to fight. Correspondingly the boss symbolizes a mysterious and irresistible breaking power. "Fly" symbolizes a person's life its struggle symbolizes a strong instinct and its death shows that life can not bear the blow of fate.

2021-04-18

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