Monday, July 13, 2009 Heathcliff Analyzed

Disturbed while calculating his business losses, Heathcliff considers scratching the boy's eyes out.

Heathcliff is trying to sell maps of dogcatchers homes. The preposition "of" as opposed to "to" indicates that these are floor plans of dogcatcher's homes. Why anyone would want a floor plan of a dogcatcher's home is a mystery. Perhaps, if dogs could read, they could buy the floor plans, then sneak in at night and, knowing in advance where the bedroom was, could go directly there and kill the dogcatcher. However, since these are not maps "to" the dogcatchers' homes, the dogs still wouldn't know how to get there.

Whatever the reason for starting this business, it doesn't seem to to be going over well. Despite the obvious fact that Heathcliff has no business, Iggy has appeared and is irritating the cat with his stupid "How's business?" question.

Note how Iggy has buried his feet in the ground, undoubtably embarrassed by those horrible yellow shoes that his grandparents make him wear.