Okay I will break the ice here. It's Monday evening and no one has posted on William Wilson! I was kind of waiting to post about this one to see if anyone had any brillian comments about it, as I know you are all geniuses, and I was hoping to gain some insight from your thoughts. This did not happen so I am going to shoot in the dark and ask a few questions about this tale. Please help!
If the narrator was so tormented by this "William Wilson" then why did it take so long for him to do anything about it?
If they were the same person, then how did the butler guy announce to the narrator that he had a guest the night that he was drinking wine? Did he just imagine that? Was he truely alone the whole time and bouncing from looney bin to looney bin in different countries?
What do you make of the competitiveness of the narrator and how does it contribute to his split personality? I think that it makes him more able to keep this other personality because he feels like nothing he does is good enough and the other personality sustains this feeling for him.
Were you surprised at the ending to find out they are the same person? I wasn't! If the story was shorter I might have been a bit more surprised but by the ending I kind of saw it comming, but that didn't take away from the story for me. How about you?
Again, I liked the descriptions and sensations that the tale included, that seems to be a theme from across the board this week. I also really liked the last couple of pages the most of all, they just seemed to invoke so much feeling, which I think aided in the stabbing scene!
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I really liked this story-- the first time I read it I had my suspicions that they were the first person but wasn't sure until the end. I agree that if it had been shorter it would have been more of a surprise or shock at the end.
I like the what you said about keeping the competitiveness alive between him and, well the other him. Because if he wanted to be friends with this other person it wouldn't make much of a story, but because he is constantly competing and falling short of the 2nd William Wilson, it makes it that much easier for him to be a nutcase.
"Fight Club" anyone? This story really reminded me of this movie which also helped me understand the different personality sides that were being displayed. I liked the competition between the two Wilson's and thought this made for an interestng twist in the story.
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