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This 3 page paper analyzes the character of Lyman in the short story "The Red Convertible." Bibliography lists 1 source.
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paper analyzes Lymans character in the story and argues that although the protagonists are Native Americans, the issues the story raises are universal. Discussion The first thing we have to
consider is the fact that Lyman is the narrator of the story, and he can be either a reliable or unreliable narrator. The unreliable narrator is the character who tells
a story only to reveal at the end that hes been misleading us all along; Edgar Allan Poe used this mechanism in some of his works. Is Lyman telling the
truth? We have no way of knowing for sure, because there is no objective witness to Henrys death; we have only Lymans word for what happened. We might also want
to consider that Henrys experiences in Vietnam have changed him to the point where his family doesnt know what to do to help him or how to bring back the
"old" Henry. Since that is the case, we might consider that Lyman killed Henry in as a sort of "mercy killing" to stop his suffering. However, that conclusion seems a
bit far fetched and requires us to assume that Lyman felt there were no other options. However, we know that the brothers are extremely close; in addition, Lyman damaged the
car deliberately so that Henry would work on it, and thus be restored to his old self. This doesnt seem to match up with the idea of mercy killing, so
we can probably safely take Lymans word for what happened, which means that we can also assume that the rest of the story is true. Is Henrys death a
suicide or an accident? There lies the real question, because it could be either. Henry is so changed by Vietnam-hes obviously suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder-that he seems disconnected from
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