The Murder Of Carol Neulander Sparknotes

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“The Murder of Carol Neulander” was a story about how a rabbi killed his wife. It was also much more than that, talking about friendships, loyalties, family trauma and how an investigator handled it all. The end result is given to the reader before the end of the first paragraph, but the results aren’t what pulls the reader in. The stage is set for a dramatic telling of how murder played out, before and after the death, and how the rabbi is caught. Instead, it is more straight-forward telling of events, although it is suspenseful in parts.
All the main people involved are just names, Carol and Fred Neulander and their children Matthew and Rebecca. But Martin Devlin was the true main character of the story. Unlike the others, he was described physically and given a background on where he used to work and what he was like as a person. Devlin was the person who put together most of the case and the person focused on for the article. He connected all the people and pieces together better than following the rabbi or one of the …show more content…

There was some order to it, but things were revealed for the best suspense and reveal possible in certain parts and then others revealed early to get to the point or help the article make sense in what was happening in the case and why. Some things the reader could guess before it was revealed, but the wait for the answer made it more compelling to read. Then the set up for the crucial aspects of the case organized the story in a way other styles of writing couldn’t have done as well. Split up into four parts, “the phone calls, the fight, the mistress and the Torah,” the important parts of what happened in the murder were set up so a reader could follow along just as a jury might when the case was displayed in court. It had a little more backing behind it because the results were already there, but it was still interesting to follow along in just how it

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