What is the deep message/ symbol/ theme of the short story "Kerfol" by Edith Wharton?

Answer 1

THEMES: LAW, JUSTICE, AND FEMALE REVENGE

See this bit from a comparison with "Trifles"

Until 1828, murder of a superior by an inferior, as, for example, the case of a servant killing a master, or a wife murdering a husband, was a special classification of murder termed "petty treason". Frances Dolan has written about this
crime as depicted in seventeenth century texts in the following terms, which are also relevant to the critical impulse of "Kerfol" and Trifles: The murderous wife calls into question the legal conception of a wife as subsumed by her husband and largely incapable of legal or moral agency.
She also violates the vigorous and persistent, if not necessarily descriptive, cultural constructions of women as incapable of initiative or autonomous action ... through violent action, the contradictions of wives'
social and legal status erupt as uncontainable. (1992: 3) The similarities between the murders in both stories, the same act of killing a husband with unwomanly strength and violence, coupled with the impossibility of
justifying this same death, makes this theme of murder a suggestive one for protest
against the status quo, especially when combined with the sub-text of the way
women are excluded from, or written out of, legal and literary history. Françoise Lionnet has studied the theme of murder in the work of several black women writers
and she suggests that instead of the traditional concept of murder as a "crime of the
individual against society", murder "is present as a symptom of society's crime against the female individual" (1997: 209). As literary crimes, there is a satisfying poetic justice in the way the men are murdered: in Trifles, John Wright is strangled, just as he strangled his wife's canary
(the only thing that Minnie's husband could not possess); while in "Kerfol", Yves de Cornault is savaged to death, either by the ghosts of Anne's dogs, perhaps in revenge
or defence of their mistress, or by the mistress herself. In both cases the murders require a strength that would seem to exceed the suspects' (although this is never
used in their defence), and the violence of the murders is at odds not only with the supposed motive, but also with society's image of women. Neither woman has an
alibi, and what is more, Anne was a highly suspicious witness to the killing (although she claims only to have heard her husband being killed). Minnie Wright,
even more suspiciously, claims to have slept while her husband was strangled in bed lying right by her side.

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SYMBOLS:
The dog is seen as a pathetic symbol of faithfulness, as a tragic sufferer, or as a terrible revenge ghost. Dogs may come singly or in groups—Edith Wharton has five of different sorts in Kerfol.

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Answer 2

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