Presentation of Franting

Question: Arnold Bennett's presentation of Franting. (No (Apr.10)

Answer: In his story 'Murder', Arnold Bennett has sho John Franting, a crud, gruff, rude, stout, ortho boxer in contrast to Lomax Harder, a suave, spoken, tall, fair, intelligent poet, a thorou gentleman, representing the two extreme ki of men.

Bennett has shown Franting as an old fashion man stuck in the wrong era. Franting thou right in wanting to be with his wife, has a very crude way of showing his love for her, so much so that he is ready to even kill her to keep One actually feels sorry for this old fashion man, with morals of barbaric age, completely and confused in this modern age. He is crude showing his love to his wife and is very dominating and possessive. Though he is live off her money he is not comfortable with the and consciously brings up the topic with the he thinks to be her lover.

Franting by showing his crudeness and plans kill Emily is as if 'frantically' pleading Lomax to save her from him and his plans to kill her. Bennett by making Franting tell the gun shop owner that he could be buying the gun for suicide, makes the reader think if that was his plan all this while and the actually incited Lomax to kill him by tearing Emily's letter in front of him and giving away his suposed plans to kill Emily.