A Story To Remember the Dead

A Eulogy is defined as a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially a set oration in honor of a deceased person. The very best eulogies often contain stories about the dead. In this way we tell their stories to keep them alive inside of us through our memories of them. In The Pillowman I have difficulty coming to terms with Katurians final story. In thinking about Eulogies, I find perhaps a meaning in his final story. Could his last tale be his attempt to eulogize himself? Could his last story be his last attempt to be remembered before his stories are locked away?
Is this McDonagh attempt to tell us that we are all authors? Authors of our lives and our own stories. Every time we relate something of ourselves to someone else we are giving a narrative. And in changing the way that Katurian views his death is he reminding us that we can change our own story? This play brought a lot of questions and some of them I just can't answer.

P.S. Tomorrow PAH-LEEZE get out and vote.