"Never could stand that dog." I love it how this last sentence has a double meaning.
It could be the narrator's feelings towards Frank. But it can also mean that Frank directed all his anger towards the dog over the years and that the ugly chihuahua finally sparked his rage and made him feel as if burning everything down was a just act of retribution. "It's all the dog's fault!" A convenient scapegoat to push away the feeling that in fact it's all his own fault by settling down in the valley in the first place.
"Never could stand that dog." I love it how this last sentence has a double meaning.
It could be the narrator's feelings towards Frank. But it can also mean that Frank directed all his anger towards the dog over the years and that the ugly chihuahua finally sparked his rage and made him feel as if burning everything down was a just act of retribution. "It's all the dog's fault!" A convenient scapegoat to push away the feeling that in fact it's all his own fault by settling down in the valley in the first place.