The Life you save may be you Own.

The title may be confusing ,maybe till the end of the story becouse of it's irony implemented in it.A story of many themes,symbols and irony which can be founded throughout the story. The main are hypocrizy ,greed , selfishness and female oppression.The character of Mr.Shiftlet reminded me of the book of Myzanthrop the man who hated other people's immoralities and habits  who is always talking about justice, morality,sincerity and so on while in fact he couldn't be more hypocrite.Mr.Shiftlet  is a hypocrite, a fake man pretending to have moral, boasting and showing off like a humble man who values simple things and doesn't care about money.In fact he was a greedy man he craves for the old woman's car and money.Mrs.Crater offered him a place to stay and sleep in order to make repairs around the house and saw him as good son-in-low for her deaf daughter . She saw him as a saviour but in the end he only saves himself.Maybe she wasn't a selfish mother who wanted to get rid of her daughter,she already had money and a good living so her daughter wasn't a heavy burden after all she just couldn't hear and speak and Mr. Craters felt pitty for her. Her main concern was the future of her daughter as when she dies no one would take care of her and she knows what it means to live without a husband.This also implements the idea  that women's  ''happiness'' was based on marriage.Women couldn't make it in life without a husband..Unfortunately females have been treated like objects for years and so was the poor Lucynell,a victim of fate and objectification.