Will Jo cry out and save the Prime Minister’s life? Will she remain silent and save her son’s life? This is where Hitchcock keeps and sustains the suspense-not first in the external order, but in the will. Jo McKenna, as expected is a strong willed woman who acts according to her will and the suspense is broken at the end. Flannery O’Connor in her novel Wise Blood (1962) wrote compellingly about this tension thus: “Free will does not mean one will but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery, and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen” (qtd in Sptoto 250). Conflicting of will can be seen in I Confess, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds and The Trouble with Harry. Binary
