![]() ![]() ![]() In the end, Sunday reveals himself not only to be the one who first hired each man onto the police force and drew him into this seemingly useless investigation, but also as a far more spiritual specter than each man had at first anticipated. The majority of the tale centers on these mysterious revelations, and the constant question in the reader’s mind is not so much “Who is Sunday?” but rather “What is Sunday’s game?” Each of these members is named after one of the days of the week, thus making this gentleman “Thursday” and the secretive and terrifying President of the Board “Sunday.” Throughout the story, Thursday discovers one-by-one that each of the other members of this board is actually also an undercover police detective, and that each of them has been tricked into investigating and chasing a secret society that actually does not exist. The main character, a police detective in his dream, finds himself suddenly the newest member of the secret, seven-member Board of Anarchists. The story is the retelling of a dream from a man to his wife in bed over a few bottles of burgundy, a plot which generally should scream to most readers, “Avoid me!” though as an offering from a master writer like Chesterton, it still entices. Chesterton,” the short novel, The Man Who Was Thursday, feels more like a mystery than anything, though it ends up proving itself to be a spiritual allegory, albeit an entirely convoluted one. ![]()
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