Essay Database

In the short story "Myself and a Rabbit," by Michael Mac Grian, a man is encountered by a rabbit who is being chased by a brown-coated weasel, on a lovely summer afternoon. The poetic short story finds itself going into great detail as to how the rabbit is moving aimlessly within a field of bulrushes, as a clever stoat chases the rabbit, and is consumed by its scent. The narrator then expresses the movements of …

…but that it is better for him to think of it having a quick death, than thinking about it dying patiently and slowly. In the end, the author shows how the narrator's sympathy towards the rabbit is one of bitter contempt; that the narrator feels that his attempts to save the rabbit were futile. The rabbit will die regardless of what the narrator does, either from fear or by the same or another voracious stoat.