No One, not a soul, not a single person: My neurodivergent arse: “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Death in Puss in Boots the last Wish is a wolf, nor do I think it’s just because a wolf is a cool and menacing creature, nor as furry-bait, but that it’s a deliberate reference on the part of the writers to The Interlopers by Saki, where death appears as a wolves with no actual stakes in the main conflicts between characters, in order to drive home the theme of the inevitability and randomness of death and the importance of living genuinely before it’s too late. I fact, a think the choice to make the wolf also a Spanish speaker with strong Western visual and audio motifs (spaghetti western whistling, being seen as a bounty hunter, the “Pick it up” duels) layers this symbolism with another work that heavily draws of The Interlopers, namely No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy¸ where Anton Chigurh is also obliquely referred to as lobo. In this essay I will…”
