The Mad Man By Johnny Walker Analysis

The Mad Man

His name is Johnny Walker, at least that is what they called him in the village. No one really knew how he came to walk around the village at least twice per day and right through the middle of it at least three times per day right until midnight every day. Was his first name Johnny? Only those who had seen his birth certificate knew and I being a child in the village at the time would certainly not know. All I knew is that he was the mad man who walked through the village as if he had somewhere urgent to be and a specific time to be there for.

Rumour has it that when Jonny was about sixteen years old he met her. He met Hilda, the woman who would become the love of his life, become his wife and destroy his life. Johnny loved Hilda with everything that he had. The story says that Johnny got the teacher in the

She began to view him as inadequate, low in status and not good enough for her since she had finished primary school and he only got to the third standard. He seemed to be growing uglier as the days went by, but only because she was comparing him to Hugh, the man who had begun to whisper sweet nothings which Johnny didn’t know much about. Before long Hilda was spending long evenings at Hugh’s house straightening her gown every time after exiting his luxurious home.

One evening on his way home from work early Johnny heard the groanings coming from Hugh’s home, he knew his Hilda from miles away. He busted straight through the door and into the sitting-room where he met them half naked on the floor. Hilda ran all the way home but she could not run from Johnny’s wrath and shame. He could never again touch her so he burnt it down, to get rid of everything that would remind him of her since he could no longer be with her, unfortunately, she was trapped hiding below the house and everything, including Hilda and Johnny’s sanity was burnt away that