Death in the Woods | Themes
Human vs. Animal
The main theme of the story, as described by the narrator, concerns Mrs. Grimes’s aim to ‘‘feed animal life’’—including both humans and animals. She spends her life trying to sustain other life forms.
In other words, she feeds the German farmer and his wife, her husband and son, and the animals on their farm, making no particular distinction between them. The men in her life are crude, selfabsorbed, abusive, not significantly different from animals.
Mrs. Grimes is an outsider in the town; therefore it seems natural...
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