My 2024 review of Stephen King's "Misery"

Misery is a double edged sword swung just right off to cut down enemies. Those enemies weren’t from somewhere external. It was within - internal enemies. At first, when you read it, you’ll most likely note that this was a novel about a man abducted by a crazed, maniacal fanatic. Further into reading, it became clearer the message this written novel has to say to its readers.
Misery is merely a rhetoric of how a writer’s mind works. Paul Sheldon, a writer, was struggling to get a good book out, and he set out to make one, out of his own. Annie Wilkes is the double edged sword here, she was either real or a work of the imaginary, where Paul tried himself to inflict and suffer on all his own, to create a masterpiece of a novel: Misery’s Return.
His monologues about it, to me, suggest that there was an ongoing conflict between himself, his writing, and the work that he does. Others would say that Annie Wilkes is the reflection of greed. Which may have been true. She could be, on her own, a metaphor of having a mental breakdown of thinking what should the book be and what should happen afterwards.
Misery, in all, is a book which tackles the mental stillness of one’s own hive; on how it thinks, how it behaves, how it interact with its world, and Paul Sheldon, having trying to live on the days of his own glory, might’ve thought of doing it again. This time though, it took a toll on his own mental clarity on things: a writer’s dilemma and rhetoric of financial ruin.