The most unsettling thesis of Deeper is that a person who refuses to hurt a fly is not safe to be around. They are, in fact, a ticking capsule of unexpressed will.

But the strength of Parker’s writing, as suggested by this keyword, lies in its refusal to let Freya off the hook. The chapter ends not with a dramatic swat of the fly, but with a quieter, more unsettling image: Freya locking eyes with the insect on the sill, then walking away. She still doesn’t kill it. But she stops pretending her inaction is virtue. That ambiguous closing— “She didn’t hurt a fly. She hurt everything else.” —is what elevates Deeper into a lasting meditation on the ethics of gentleness.

It is important to distinguish between two prominent figures with this name:

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