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A 3 page essay that describes and analyzes this short story by Tobias Wolff. The writer discusses the story's construction, as well as the characterization of the protagonist. No additional sources cited.
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feeling that he cannot relinquish his idea of himself as superior to his surroundings even when his life is in mortal danger. Anders is a book critic, who is known
for the "weary, elegant savagery," with which he describes virtually everything he reviews (Wolff). He is a man who has learned to hate life, taking a critical stance to everything
and everyone who cross his path. Therefore, when he is in line at the bank during a bank robbery, he cannot turn off his critical faculty. He is so divorced
from his emotions and his critical stance to everything is so engrained that he critiques the language of the bank robbers and is rewarded with a bullet through his skull.
Wolff takes the premise that as the bullet travels through his brain it triggers a memory from his childhood. However, before describing this memory, Wolff briefly describes what Anders
does not remember. This provides the reader with more back story on Anders. Previously, Wolff has demonstrated that Anders is critical, rude and perpetually angry just on general principle. He
agrees with the woman in front of him that it is irresponsible of one bank teller to leave her post to go flirt with a man at the back of
the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and sarcastic. Then, when the bank
robbers appear, rather than react with fear, he continues his role of critic, daring to laugh in a thiefs face for using a clich?. Because of his audacity, he dies.
While Anders personality and world orientation are fairly clearly, Wolff drives home this characters distance from the world and real human relations and emotions by describing events from Anders
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