Introduction * Does Roderick care about his wife Janice at all? What did Roderick do to Janice? Is it his fault, that Janice never gets her sleep? Is there other factors that comes to play in, when Roderick wants to kill his wife?
Roderick is irritated by his wife. They have only been married in a few months, and haven’t been together in very long time before their marriage. Roderick’s wife, Janice, can’t sleep at night, and we can’t read in the short story, why she can’t.
Section 1 (analysis and interpretation) * “Roderick is hoping, hoping with such effort that his knees are making noise, that she will not do this today."
There is a bad atmosphere in their house. Roderick know what his wife Janice is going to tell him, when she gets up. Roderick is hoping, that she just one day, won’t say that she hasn’t been sleeping, when Roderick know she has. But the love, we must assume they had, when they were getting married, has it just turned to hate?
Maybe Roderick has been hurting her before, and this is why she can’t sleep at night. She is laying wide awake in fear of him to do something to her, but Roderick doesn’t care about it.
Roderick is described like an upper class when he drinks and eats extraordinary and on special ways. When we read this, we don’t see Roderick as a dangerous type, but I think, that Janice is afraid of him, and that’s why she can’t sleep at night.

Section 2 (analysis and interpretation) * "Will I ever know the peace you know?"
Roderick rests in himself, and is at the outside a calm person. But this is typically the mysterious persons, who acts this way. Janice asks him, if she will ever know the peace that he knows.
Nothing has gone beyond him, and he does not have a cause to be afraid, and then he doesn’t have a problem to sleep at night.
Janice doesn’t feel a peace, she is afraid of her husband, and is trying to tell him, when she tells that she can’t sleep at night, but Roderick is just irritated to hear her moaning.

Section 3 (analysis and interpretation) * “Soon, my love, you will”
Janice asks Roderick "Will I ever know the peace you know?", and the answer is “Soon, my love, you will”. Roderick hates the way his wife is moaning, and he is so tired of it, that he wants to give her an overdose of some sleep-aid drug, that will kill her.
He said the sentence, as he still is loving her, and will do the best to her. Maybe he has been hurting her before, and now he will make an end. There isn’t a far way from love to hate. I don’t think, that a man wants to kill his wife because he is irritated of hear of her, when she’s not good.
Something has to be behind, and something is happen, when Janice can’t get her sleep. Normally couples would figure it out, and find a way to help, but instead Roderick is going to kill his wife, so she can get her sleep.
Conclusion
* Roderick hate the way Janice is, when she is moaning about her missing sleep. But we don’t read about other problems in their relationship, which can have an effect that Roderick is going to kill his wife Janice, but something has to be behind, and there has to be other factors, there comes to play in.