Authors note: Before starting my blog i noticed how Mr. Utterson was putting a lot of strain on his friendships because he continued to push the fact that Hyde was on Dr. Jekyll's will. i wanted to show people that the Author may have been trying to make a point on trusting your friends.

I believe that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a metaphor trying to show the reader that if they would trust their friends, their lives would be better. Mr. Utterson is obsessed with a creepy young Mr. Hyde, believing that he is evil and needs to be kept out of his close friend, Dr. Jekyll's will. Throughout the short story Mr. Utterson is unable to sleep nor think about anything, but his friends mysterious choice of picking Mr. Hyde to receive  his fortune. Stevenson writes, "It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions"(48). Since Mr. Utterson is unable to focus on what matters, he is slowly losing his friends, because he continues to pursue the matter of who Hyde truly is. he is slowly losing Mr. Enfield due to the questions he continues to bombard him with. He is also upsetting Dr. Lanyon, again due to his addiction of finding out who Hyde is. Though doctor Jekyll tries to persuade his friend Mr. Utterson that there is nothing wrong with Hyde, and that he deserves the fortune, Mr Utterson is unable to except it. Turning Dr. Jekyll to pleading with Mr. Utterson to go through with his will when he passes on. It is because he is unable to except it that he continues to wonder and is unable to sleep nor focus on his everyday life. If Mr. Utterson would accept his friends decision and get on with his life, he would have a better, more relaxed life.