In killings why did strout shoot frank

Dubus made Matt very human. He came to life for me in the first sentence as he buried his son. I have two boys, so immediately I was hooked on the story.

I do not know the pain of burying a child. I think it is a task that would nearly kill any parent. Our children live inside our minds in two ways. We see the physical child and the life that they will live out in the future. That is we dream, wish, and pray that their lives are better, richer, more fulfilling than our own.

We want more for our children than we had experienced ourselves. Matt wanted the same for Frank. He replayed the night that Frank was murdered over and over because he needed to remind himself of the person who had been killed and the future happiness that had also been cut short.

He needed to remind himself of this loss the night he killed Strout because Matt was not a murderer in his mind, but he was so in his heart. Matt also felt that Strout killed a part of his relationship with his wife, Ruth. Matt and Ruth had been fairly content and well connected within their marriage. They clearly had open lines of communication because he had sat at home with her for a month after the funeral and she urged him to go play poker with his friend.

He clearly loved his wife. This puts the score at five. Matt lost a son and a future watching what he would become. Ruth lost a son and a future watching what he would become.

When Matt went to play poker with his friend Willis, the pain over the killings had been consuming Matt for a month. As he walked in the night air with Willis, he thought of the Red Sox. Again Matt was reminded that life will go on. Ballgames, small pleasures were all darkened now because of Strout. Matt was reminded again of how his life had been forever ruined when he saw sympathy on the faces of his friends around the poker table. Dubus works the two of them up from validation to weapon and finally to the plan to kill Strout.

When Dubus introduces Strout, I began to see him as a human. Strout was twenty-six and married to Mary Ann. Again, Matt was a man and a father. Matt saw Frank with this beautiful young tan Mary Ann. The story opens as Frank 's funeral is proceeding.

Even Though they were technically separated, but not divorced, Richard did not take the news of his legal spouse seeing another man. Richard was a hothead and had a very hard time processing things rationally when his mind is clouded.

The violence committed in both stories is deployed with both the threat of love and longing for love. However, the crime he has committed lef to self destruction and some sort of self murder.

The character is an ironic position, since he was confronted with the. A parent never wants to hurt somebody, but once a person hurts their kids- they need to hurt somebody. Franks first encounters with Richard results in a fight.

After Frank refused to end the relationship, Richard proceeded to get his vengeance by shooting Frank in front of Mary Anne, and the two young sons. Actually dealing with the situation and putting the matter to rest is the only way one is able to get closure. Matt gives off the impression that he never wanted to kill Robert, but he new he needed to.

He knew that without Richard gone, without the knowledge that he will never walk a free man is the only way Matt will be able to live in peace. His heart may be silently crying, but deep down he knows he did what needed to be. After reading the story I agree with the writers perspective, and find that Strouts act of passion will cause him to suffer a prison sentence for the crime, but Fowler suffers the pain of losing his child as well as facing the daily reminder that the killer will face a much lesser judgement.

In the end of the story Matt, with the assistance of a family member, kills Richard. Matt grieves for his son who can no longer walk the earth or be with his beloved family and friends.

Matt is angry and outraged knowing his sons killer will be walking the earth after a short 20 years, possibly less, prison sentence, and is angry that Richard appears to show no remorse for killing Frank in cold blood and feels validated in doing so because he still loved his wife and wanted to get back together with her.