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An uptight elderly man named Jonas is forced into retirement, and soon discovers his wife Anita's obsession with adopting animals into their home, leading him to use the animals for a hobby of his own. Directed by: Mary Lambert. Story by: Battle Davis, Randolph Davis, and A. Whitney Brown.
15 total · 11 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with a problematic person | major | Jonas struggled mightily to adjust to life at home with his eccentric wife after being forced into retirement. |
| descent into madness | major | A long chain of events led Jonas to snap and taxidermy most of his wife's beloved pets. |
| husband and wife | major | The story focuses on Jonas as he struggles adjust to spending the days at home together with his eccentric, cat lady wife, Anita, after he is forced into retirement. |
| love of a pet | major | The eccentric, cat lady Anita beloved the numerous animals she took in off the street, and took care of them much as if they were her own children. |
| love vs. career | major | After retiring and finding out about his wife's lonesome obsession with pets, Jonas lamented that his career had kept him to occupied to let him nurture his marriage and be a companion to his wife. Indeed, the conclusion of the story was to illustrate the fatal consequences of that decision. |
| master and pet | major | Anita loved animals had kept the house full of pets. |
| neighbor and neighbor | major | Jonas' next door neighbor Roy poked around the house, making efforts to get Jonas to take it easy in his retirement, but to no avail. |
| obsession | major | Anita's love of pets went far beyond the ordinary, and in the end it culminated in a broken marriage and a spouse murder. |
| recreational activity | major | After a few false starts, including gardening and airplane model making, Jonas found what he thought was the perfect hobby to take up in his retirement: taxidermying his wife's beloved pets. Roy tried to get Jonas interested in making airplane models, but to no avail. |
| retiring from one's job | major | Jonas struggled mightily to adjust to life at home with his eccentric wife after being forced into retirement. |