r taking men's lives on a daily basis, the act of murder is nothing less than a routinely schedule he follows. His heartless, lack of feelings eventually modifies the way in which the essay is perceived. "For God's sake hurry up Francis. The man ought to have been dead by now." The superintendent becomes irritable when his schedule is off kilter. Through his repudiating mannerisms, the essay shifts from sympathy to insensitive. As the guard and the condemned man make their way to the gallows, a dog interrupts the solemnity. The canine, described as "a large wooly dog" galloped around frantically even making an attempt to lick the condemned man. "...it danced and gambolled just out of his reach, taking everything as part of the game." At this point in the essay, it is hard for the reader to see the dog as a symbolic figure. However, later there are apparent parallels to the dog and the condemned man. As the condemned man is reciting to his god before the hanging, the dog whines his own chant. After the man's death, "the dog sobered and conscious of having misbehaved itself slipped after them." It is almost as if the dog represents the condemned man's hidden emotions. The man carries a concrete facade, but inside it impossible to be insensitive. For instance, when he was being taken out of his cell in the beginning, on the outside he showed no opposition, but on the inside he most likely felt like the excitable, frantic dog. After the hanging, the dog was sorry for its previous outrageous behavior, just as the man was mostly likely repentant for his crime(s). It really seems that the inner feeling of the condemned man can be viewed through the dog. The dog adds a more lively tone to the essay, as opposed to the morbid superintendent and the silenced man....
