Glue Trap

I don't get these mice. Obviously this glue trap is a dangerous area. Why would this second mouse come over and step onto the same area that another mouse corpse was rotting away on. They don't have any sense. Man, if I saw a dead body, I would be damn sure to go the other way. Stupid mice.

She didn't come home for two days. So he went to look for her. He checked the hallway, the kitchen, and the closet, and he finally found her in the garage behind the freezer. Her back left foot and the right side of her face were stuck in a glue trap.

Around her ankle, there were bite marks from her own teeth. But as she gnawed on her own flesh to free herself, her face also became stuck in the glue.

She must have struggled. The glue had torn the fur from her cheek. She might have wiggled free except her open eyeball was also stuck to the trap. When she tried to pull her head away, her eye stayed behind. He looked at her right eye, dislocated from the socket, and he lamented not being there to help her.

He slowly stepped into the glue, like he was stepping into a hot bath. He rested on his belly and faced her. He felt the glue take hold of his paws, his fur, his tail, and his lower jaw.

The female, made a wild, panic-stricken, despairing fight that soon exhausted her, and all the time the male had stayed with her...Then, while the old man was clearing the lines and preparing the harpoon, the male fish jumped high into the air beside the boat to see where the female was and then went down deep...That was the saddest thing I ever saw...and we begged her pardon and butchered her promptly. (Hemingway 49-50)

Works Cited:
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. 1952. New York: Scribner, 2003.