Deconstruction of the short story from F. Kafka- A Brother's murder

Text B: A Brother’s Murder (from F. Kafka)

After reading the text, I found the text-order and story order are almost the same. The story is narrated by a narrator (P.O.V.) followed the timeline of murder/event. Only one order (no. 2), I think it's a little bit different. By the text order, the writer uses question sentences to tell reader, Pallas is the witness and during Time 1 and Time 2, he was waiting and watching from his window. However, if we follow the story order, it should be, "Wese has been killed by Schmar --> and then, Pallas witnessed all the process".

Another interesting point is, readers are not sure Julia's role. All the clue is from Schmar shrieked to Wese, "Wese! You will never see Julia again!", and maybe writer leaves the imagination for readers to guess, trigger readers' curiosity and then every reader will have their own story in their brain. For example, Julia maybe Mrs Wese's name, something happend during the 3 people which cause the murder motivation. Or Julia maybe the 5th character in this story, and there is another event.

According to the story, simple and first-satge analysis could be listed as followed:

• Characters:
  C1: Schmar, the murder
  C2: Pallas, the witness
  C3: Wese, the victim and a industrious night worker
  C4: Mrs Wese, the victim’s wife
  C5: Julia (? maybe Mrs Wese’s name, maybe someone which was known by the murderer and victim in common.)

• Timeline:
  Time 1: before the murder event happened
  Time 2: the murder happened
  Time 3: after
  
• Location:
  L1: the corner of the street where Wese worked.
  L2: Pallas’s home
  L3: Wese’s home, only 5 houses farther along on the opposite of the street.


• Text-order:
  1. In one night with clear moonlight, Schmar, the murder, brought a knife and waited the victim by the corner of the street.
  2. Meantime, Pallas, the private citizen, witnessed all the murder from his window.
  3. The victim’s wife, Mrs Wese waited her husband at home which is only 5 houses farther along on the opposite of the street.
  4. There rang out the sound of the door bell and Mr Wese, the industrious night worker, walked out the building and paused by the corner.
  5. Wese was stopped and killed by Schmar.
  6. Pallas shut to Schmar ‘he saw it at all’ and they scrutinized each other.
  7. Mrs Wese came rushing up with shock and collapsed on top of Wese.
  8. Schmar, the murder was led away by the policeman.


• Story-order:
  1. In one night with clear moonlight, Schmar, the murder, brought a knife and waited the victim by the corner of the street.
  2. Meantime, Pallas, the private citizen, seemed that he knew the murderer, stood and watched from his window to wait for the murder happened.
  3. The victim’s wife, Mrs Wese waited her husband at home which is only 5 houses farther along on the opposite of the street.
  4. There rang out the sound of the door bell and Mr Wese, the industrious night worker, walked out the building and paused by the corner.
  5. Wese was stopped and killed by Schmar.
  6. Pallas witnessed all the murder, shut to Schmar ‘he saw it at all’ and they scrutinized each other.
  7. Mrs Wese came rushing up with shock and collapsed on top of Wese.
  8. Schmar, the murder was led away by the policeman.