YorksG
Over the hill and far awa
There is also the option that the husband/father did this, not to spite the world, or not allow it to be taken from him, but that he could not bear to be failure to his family. He may have felt such despair that his wife and child would no longer have the animals and the way of life he felt he should provide for them, that this appeared to him to be the only way out. You can be totally irrational and still make and carry out elaborate plans, which if delayed may never be carried out to the end. He appears to possibly have had the 'putting the bills behind the clock' mentality, which works to some extent, until the baliffs arrive. He may have believed that his family would no longer love him if he was a failure. Incredibly sad, whatever anyones motivation.
