Drioli Is Dead Analysis

Drioli is dead. The fact that the author told us that the man lied about the hotel and everything he offered to Drioli gives me the idea that Drioli is probably dead. It says in the last paragraph of the story, “It wasn't more than a few weeks later that a picture by Soutine, of a woman's head, painted in an unusual manner, nicely framed and heavily varnished, turned up for sale in Buenos Aires. That and the fact that there is no hotel in Cannes called Bristol--causes one to wonder a little, and to pray for the old man's health, and to hope fervently that wherever he may be at this moment, there is a plump attractive girl to manicure the nails of his fingers, and a maid to bring him his breakfast in bed in the mornings.” This is where I get

Poor old man was not thinking that the man would lie to him, the man looked too great to be a liar. Drioli just went and the doctor took his skin off and put him to death.

People didn't value Drioli as much as they valued the tattoo on his back, at first someone asked the old guy to leave to art gallery when he saw how Drioli dressed and how he is poorly-looking. Someone in the art gallery murmured out about he should not sell the painting on his back at that price, it worths twenty times more. This shows that they do not really care about Drioli health after selling, they were just admiring the painting on his back.

Drioli is currently living in heaven where everyone is praying that there will be will be attractive girls to manicure his nails and a maid to bring him breakfast in the morning. The art gallery owner lied about everything to him except the fact that he had let the doctor or someone take Drioli’s skin out for that precious painting painted by Soutine. Poor Drioli did not know that he was being fooled by the art gallery owner and walked on his own legs to his