Spoilers: We Learn What We Live

Here goes...I had some sympathy for Martinon and the sisters, Adela, the first wife and Pasquale the last wife. What happened to Martinon up in his mountain kingdom that was crumbling was devastating to watch. His friend the bar keep seemed to care about him and his future and I felt that the bar keep might have lived up in the high village at one time but gave up and went down the mountain to a future crumbling village. Martinon had more respect for the wolves in the forest than the men in the town and for good reason, we all find out. The silence with the women in his house seemed worse than when he was alone. I didn’t feel like he was a brute or mean I just think that he had been on his own for god only knows how long? Since he was a teenager? A young man? The way he had sex (I can’t say love making) with the wives was for me quite horrifying but had connotations of a man who only had seen wolves or elk have sex in an animalistic way. The second wife was a virgin and didn’t have the knowledge or experience to change that. He was careful to not thin the wolf pack too much to not annhilate it. Or worse, in his mind to leave possibly the last wolf alone just like him. He was kind in that way. He knew she had poisoned him but he didn’t kill or poison her back. For him the poison was better than being alone. He told the bar keep that he would burn everything he had down so no one else could take it but in the end while he was vomiting in bed he left the goats for the wolves and the front door open. He would protect himself as long as he could but he would let the wolves feed on him as he had fed on them. I was also surprised when the second wife started to poison him with the herbs her father had given her in the churchyard because I thought papa had given the herbs to her so if things got too bad she could use them one herself not Martinon. What little dialogue there was it said a lot about what happened later. But he was never intentionally brutal or mean just the worst kind of lonely and with empty wooden baby rockers. My take on the end was thinking if he was more wolf (honest with integrity) or more man (liars and deceptive), I think in the end he was choosing the wolves.