The Wall Analysis

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apparent lack of interest in life towards the end of the story. He lives as if he were already dead, which is to say he abdicates the little bit of hope left him.

Pablo begins to have an out of body experience to help him understand what may happen to him

Example: “In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal. I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm-because of my body; my body I saw with its eyes, I heard with its ears, but it was no longer me, it sweated and trembled by itself and I didn’t recognize it anymore.”

Pablo realizes that no life has more value than another. “No life has value.” His life has no meaning anyway and that it will not make a difference if he lies to the inquisitors or tells them the truth. (Ironic; because his trade of life becomes pointless)

In the end, death seems meaningless because Pablo has become uninterested in life. He had overwhelmed with the idea of death all night, only to finally realize death has no meaning and any effort that he might make from the moment he exchanges his life will be ineffectual

Mortality

Pablo attempts to understand how the certainty of his execution will affect both his rest of life and his perception of his past

Pablo realized that in the past he had lived as if he were immortal

Example: “My life was in front of me, shut, closed like a bag and yet everything inside of it was unfinished. For an instant I tried to pass judgment on it; it was only a sketch; I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity, I had understood nothing.”

No longer able to pretend that he is immortal, but Pablo would like to make sense of his life