A Fear of Spiders story
A heartless gourmet (Patrick O'Neal) is punished by his arachnophobia. Note: Based on a short story "The Spider" by Elizabeth Walter Directed by: Theodore J. Flicker. Story by: Gene Kearney.
12 total · 1 choice · 8 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| the need for companionship | choice | Elizabeth hoped that one day Justus would need someone and be rejected the way she had needed him and been rejected - then she resolved to teach him a lesson |
| arachnophobia | major | Food critic Justus Walters became visibly unnerved by the presence of spiders of ever increasing size in his apartment. |
| attitude of superiority | major | Justus was a proud and arrogant man. |
| coping with an obsessive fan | major | Elizabeth was an enamored groupie of Justus |
| cruelty | major | Justus was mean to the lady upstairs, named Elizabeth, when she came downstairs to pay him a visit. She returned the favor by locking him in his own bedroom together with a giant spider. |
| getting a taste of one's own medicine | major | Elizabeth repaid Justus' display of cruelty toward her by abandoning him in a room together with what he believed to be a giant spider. |
| hell hath no fury like a woman scorned | major | Justus was abandoned by Elizabeth in his moment of need after he had shown her cruelty. |
| ironic twist of fate | major | Food critic Justus Walters who had cruelly abandoned his neighbor in her time of need was later abandoned by that same neighbor in his time of need. |
| lesson in humility | major | Justus coldly rejected Elizabeth at his door, but then he went begging to her in his time of need. |
| coping with an arrogant jerk | minor | Elizabeth and the janitor with Justus. |