Pale Rider Themes

The concept of love is always interpreted in many different ways such as love, hate, passion, and lust. Between the three novelas The Fox, Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Pale Horse Pale Rider there is always a conflict with love, from homosexuality to jealousy there's always one individual that has an issue with who's loving who. In The Fox, the image of love is portrayed many different times. In the beginning of the novela two of the main characters, March and Jill, are in love with each other. However, the author tries to confuse you and leads you to use your own imagination of whether their relationship is homosexual, or just a close bond. Later on in the story the third and last main character, Henry, falls in love with March and insists that she marry him. When Jill finds out, that's when the conflict begins. She wants March to herself as it had been their whole life, and Henry wants March to leave and start a new life with him. When Henry first came to the house, Jill was the one
Miss Amelia, an unattractive woman first starts off with her husband Marvin whom later goes to jail. After a while Miss Amelia tends to her very successful liquor store and she tries to forget about her ex-husband. Randomly one day her long lost cousin, Lymon, arrives at her home. Soon she falls in love with him, not caring that he is her relative. They remain close and slightly affectionate for each other for awhile, but when Marvin returns to the house everything changes. Lymon's first gaze at Marvin sets him in a permanent trance. Marvin was everything that Lymon always wanted to be, strong, tall, handsome and a tough guy, considering he just got out of jail. Lymon quickly falls for Marvin, completely forgetting any sparks there were between Miss Amelia and himself. The two male acquaintances fight with Amelia and leave together, stranding Amelia by her lonesome; showing yet another love