The story “Killings” by Andre Dubus contains the physical and psychological conflict one deals in when it comes to the ones we love.”I Should kill him”(110), are the first thoughts someone can have when angry but do we really want to follow them through or do we say them to let off frustration never intending to act on in? Even when the act is completely thought through and can be executed, it's not the physical struggle to act but the conflict with in, on weather to act, that we have to face as we continue living; weather our actions, outside the law,are justified solely to ease our conscience because we think they are right. From the very beginning, Matt Fowler wants to avenge the death of his twenty-one year old son, Frank.He become the new lover of Richards estranged wife,yet Richard still wanted her. Frank had once come home “with stitches over his right eye and both lips bright and swollen” due to Richard coming into the house where Mary Ann and Frank were. there is a whole set of conflict here but that is directed to the morals of Frank knowing what a violent man Richarl was yet not taking heed and letting the divorce die down before getting tangled up in the drama of the Strout family.
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he begins to mention a gun with possible plans or revenge just as Richard had done. He thinks about Ruth, his wife and how his actions will affect her. Would killing this man make him a hero or just as villainous as the one who began the
he begins to mention a gun with possible plans or revenge just as Richard had done. He thinks about Ruth, his wife and how his actions will affect her. Would killing this man make him a hero or just as villainous as the one who began the