The story And Then There Were None is a classic horror and mystery novel created by Agatha Christie. Throughout the story, a murderer invites them to Soldier Island because of their past crimes and murders them one by one according to the severity of their crimes and a poem that shows how every death happens. The last character killed is Vera Claythorne, and she shows a lot of guilt throughout the story towards her crime, and the guilt and trauma from her situation eventually lead to her to suicide.
Vera was a member that was invited to Soldier Island to be a secretary for U.N Owen’s wife. Vera is depicted as a shown as a modest, civil, and beautiful woman, which is shown in the book when another member, Philip Lombard, states “Quite attractive-a bit schoolmistressy perhaps.” (5) Vera is this way until the first murder, when she starts to feel strange and uneasy. However, the longer one reads, the more it is shown that Vera is panicking and looking very manic towards the end of the story before her untimely death and that is depicted in the book when it is declared that “Vera Claythorne was very quiet. She sat most of the time huddled in a chair. Her eyes stared ahead of her into
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There were hints of nervousness and guilt when Vera saw the water, which is shown at the start of the story when Vera thinks “She must not think of Hugo. . . . She opened her eyes and frowned across at the man opposite her.” (5) but nothing that would show that she would later kill herself over. But the more the story continues, the more it shows that Vera is losing touch with reality, which is vividly shown moments before her death when the book states “She adjusted the noose round her neck. Hugo was there to see she did what she had to do. She kicked away the chair.” (269) These quotes show the progression of Vera’s mental deterioration during her dreadful