Evil

"Criag lay motionless and wondered, with a clarity of mind he had not experienced in many, many days, whether he dreaded going back to the world because the world was evil, or whether it was because he felt he himself was tainted, unfit to mix with human beings again."

This passage touches on the theme of this short story. Bixby forces us to ask ourselves, what is evil? And then, how do we respond to it? Craig is very confused with how to respond. He feels like a violated victim and all at once an enabler of a terrible evil. He keeps imagining his father saying this wrong, you are wrong if you are a part of this. But he has a relationship with teh vampire that disproves all preconceived notions and suspicions about them. Why should he feel guilty about sharing life with a friend?The peace of the ocean and vast night sky above give Craig the ability to ponder all of these questions, and what he himself believes.

Should Craig have fought for his life earlier? Is there a strict definition of evil, that vampires indisputably fall into?