Essay about ”The Guild”
Summary
“The Guilt” is a short story written of Rayda Jacobs. The story is about a confrontation between a young black boy and an old woman. At one day, she got tricked by the young black boy called William, who offered his work to her. She said no, so he asked about a donation, where after he got five rand. After this he were tricky and said, that he insist to work for the money. After he was done with the work he wanted more money. He said that the five rand were a donation and she now had to pay him for his work. But Lilian would not pay him and said that he should leave the house. After he would not leave the house Lilian took her pistol and threatened him and said that she will shoot him, if he came to her house again. Later that day, when Lilian was in her bed, she started to think about her dead husband so she started to cry.

Characterization of the main characters
The main characters in the story are the old woman Lilian, which also is a widow and the young black guy William, who try to trick Lilian.
Lilian lives in a big house, she is not alone, because she has her two dogs, which are watching here. They work as a security man, so Lilian can feel safety. But she is not feeling safety enough; why else should she have her dead husbands’ gun in her bed.
William

Apparently “ The Guilt” might seem to be a story of an old woman’s crisis and its solution. But inner meaning, Rayda Jacobs has tried to reveal the eternal promises and responsibilities of a holy relationship like marriage through the principal character of the story Lillian and her late husband and thus in doing so, Jacobs succeeded in sketching the influence of Lillian’s late husband as an protective, but invisible character in Lillian’s life and also in the