Theme
Porter herself said that the title story was about the pale rider death who takes away an entire era, as illustrated in the ironic last line: "Now there would be time for everything."
Read more about this topic: Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Famous quotes containing the word theme:
“Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.—A theme for a great poet would be God’s boredom on the seventh day of creation.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)