Guilt In Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None

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“Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you”(Dave Grohl). In the book “And Then There Were None” the author Agatha Christie uses things and places to establish an ominous mood. This book first starts off with all the guests reading their invitation to a house party, but they all have different things they think they are going to. The location of the house party is on Indian Island off the Devon coast. The house on the island was built by a millionaire who was crazy about yachting, but his new wife was not good at it so they moved inland. When the guests arrive to the house they ask questions about their hosts the Owens which they find out that nobody knows who they are. Even the housekeepers the Rodgers do not know…show more content…
One piece of evidence is when the men were searching the island for the murderer found that “on the northwest side, towards the coast the cliffs fell sheer to the sea below their surface unbroken. On the rest of the island there were no trees and very little cover” (111). When the men were searching the island and find nothing the men are searching the island they think the murderer is in the house. This affects the reader’s mood because they reader wonders where the murderer is. Another piece of evidence is when Justice Wargrave is on the train going to Devon he thinks of “an American millionaire who was crazy about yachting -- and an account of the luxurious modern house he built off the Devon coast”(1). When the guests want to leave the island want to leave the island after their first night the boat does not arrive to the island. Then when General Macarthur tells Vera that the boat will never come the mood of the reader becomes more ominous. An ominous mood is developed in the book “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie by using the island’s barren landscape and isolated
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