The last chapter of Edgar Huntly I read was chapter 26, in this chapter we see Sarsefield’s reaction of the events that to place back in Ireland before Clithero fled to America. Sarsefield tells Edgar that he detests Clithero and speaks of him in the same way he spoke about Wiatte. Sarsefield describes Clithero as being “unnatural; devilish; a thing for which no language has yet provided a name.” I found it interesting how Sarsefield’s conversation with Huntly parallels to the conversation he had with Clithero back in Ireland, but now he was describing Clithero in the same fashion. Sarsefield despised Clithero so much for nearly killing Clarise, whom he had mistaken for Mrs. Lorimer, that he “did not want to occupy…the same world with him.” …show more content…
Lorimer. After ending his conversation with Edgar, Sarsefield helps Edgar to his room, where he leaves him to rest and tells him he’ll comeback later. After some time, Edgar hear noises from downstairs and assumes it is only Sarsefield, but suddenly he hears a gun shot and later sees an Indian, come into his room, and jump out the window. Sarsefield then enter and tells Edgar to come downstairs, but not before asking him why he lied because Clithero was not dead and in fact he was the one who had been shot. Despite Clithero being hurt Sarsefield was still unmoved in his view of Clithero and refused to aid him. I think that Sarsefield refusing to help Clithero shows that he is loyal to a fault, because although he means well by trying to protect Mrs. Lorimer he refuses to accept that Clithero is remorseful for his actions, and has been plagued with sleepwalking because of the stress, yet he does not care to help, he is in a way the opposite of Mrs. Lorimer because she was blind to how cruel her brother was, stayed with her abusive husband, she also refused to let Clithero take his own life despite him wanting to kill