This story is interwoven with numerous examples of good and or innocence, winning out over evil. A good example is in romantic relationships with Fat Charlie and his brother Spider. A somewhat shy and unassertive youth, Fat charlie worships his fiancee Rosie and plays along with her game of no sex before marriage. Then Spider appears on the scene and promptly starts sleeping with Rosie, breaking his brother's heart and revealing Rosie as somewhat of a phoney. But by the end of the story Fat Charlie has married Daisy, the cop, and is raising a son. I sense that this is a better match for Fat Charlie and that his goodness and honesty have amply rewarded him.
The author summons the dark beliefs of animism, showing how they work in peoples' lives, then banishes those beliefs by showing how they are powerless to overcome the innate goodness of most people. By dragging these animistic beliefs and characters into the sunlight, they lose their power which is based upon manipulation of human beings through fear.
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