![]() ![]() Three in the morning, Charles Halloway muses, is the hour when "the soul is out" and "you are the nearest to dead you'll ever be save dying" (14.12). Evening is when danger and evil lurk, whereas daytime is pleasant and safe. Halloway pretends to talk to the clock when he is actually communicating with the boys.) But why exactly do we always need to know what time it is in the novel? What's the big deal here? As we talk about in "Themes," different times of day have different meanings in Something Wicked This Way Comes. (It also has a brief cameo in its own right when Mr. It is constantly striking the different hours of the day, letting us know exactly when we are in the novel: seven o'clock, nine o'clock, midnight, whatever the case may be. In a literal sense, the town clock is a major figure in the text. Clock imagery in Something Wicked This Way Comes is both literal and figurative. ![]()
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