Also in Mendoza, it is a dark and evil scene as Mendoza's body is tied to the back of a donkey but the body kept sliding down under the donkey ("ass"). There is no respect for the dead here in this scene, and to take his bloody, muddy, and wet body to his wife's house, and throw it down in the threshold -- that is profoundly evil. He never had a chance, and now his family has to pay the price. The evil and "horrible grimace" that was on the face of the dead Mendoza must have been a terrible shock to his family and his children. His son (who had found what he thought was a corpse) now saw a real corpse, ironically the person he had seen earlier and mistaken for a corpse -- his own father!
There were dark scenes in the Light, as well. The narrator found those hundreds of canvases "frightening" -- like "creatures bred of the dark shadows of the cellar and never seeing the light." The narrator, as a student of Mr. Foley's back in the day, was glad to get back upstairs and out of that murky basement with all the paintings. Even the setting in the woods was dark and forbidding. No sun could get through. That's sure sign that the author is painting a picture of something bleak or uncomfortably dark.
Finished and Unfinished business in all three plots
In the Light, Mr. Foley had started "hundreds" of paintings and then lost interest before they were finished. "I never had any satisfaction," Mr. Foley said. He would start a painting, fully meaning to finish it, but he was never able to. Before he could finish it another idea for a picture would enter his mind and he would toss the first one aside and begin painting the new one, which he also would never finish. "I was never able to remember what I wanted to paint," he said. The symbolism of the light trickling through the leaves of the trees seems to link with his trickle of an idea for a picture. He said the light would "trickle" but "never flow." That was also true of his paintings, the idea never flowed, it just arrived...
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