turning into a lit major?

  This was kinda hard for me when i was in school, but i can't not think this way now. . .
  In my continued Agatha Christie reading, i've recently read Death on the Nile and Murder After Hours/The Hollow.
  My little sketch shows characters with the same characteristics in relation to the story:

• Veronica/Linett: They want to be the leader (not strong enough a word), in their relationship, not the wife who follows whatever her husband wants.  It turns out that the man feels owned.
• John/Simon: The man who does not want to be owned, but enjoys a mate who adores him.
• Gerda/Jackie:  The novels express this differently.  Poirot says Jackie "loves too much." Gerda is seen as worshipping her husband John.

  Both of these were among Agatha Christie's favorites. Myself, i see Death on the Nile as a good Christie work, though for being that, not really extraordinary.  But The Hollow is perhaps her most masterful work.  i like looking intimately into the thoughts of most of the characters.  This really raised the book from "the shooting of a philandering doctor" to an intense study of the human condition.  Definitely lit class stuff!
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  i always think of The Hollow as Murder After Hours, because my copy is of the only edition that used that title!