I thought these both sentences were so ironic but that at the same time made so much sense: the character (Ida), lives her life as if she were dead, but then she fears for death in a contradicting way. This image of death pulling the woman's head is breath taking. This is what every human being does, plead for life when death comes along when the chance you had for life was not even appreciated. This is the exact image I would portray if death would come for Ida, she would plead for no reason. I must say I love the morbidity in the painting, portraying the last moment of desperation of this woman, the one thing no one would like to be a witness of.
Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, Penguin Group, 1977, p.36
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