Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff Essay

sess in the Brain is a short story written by Tobias Wolff. The story is about a take for critic named Anders, while waiting in a long line at the stick he is the victim of an armed robbery and gets shot and killed. The story is divided in to two parts, and this piece allows the reader to see a contrast between two parts of main characters psycheality. I want to argue in this essay that the combination of Anders love of words and negative ago effs ar what led to his end, and demonstrate the contrast of Anders wisdom when he was younger ,and innocence when he was older, as a consequence of that combination.In the first part of the story when Anders is waiting in line, hes visualise to an armed robbery and he is nipping and cynical until he got shot in the head. In the second part the bullet inside Anders brain slows down time to let the reader witness the negative past experience that made him such a cynical sarcastic and childish person that he was when he got shot. I will start from the second part of the plot when he got shot. In this part of the story we see more sides to Anders character. We have a short summary of Anders past experience in life that made him so cynical and sarcastic equivalent he is to the point he got shot.The highlight of the second part is that the writer made a list of memories that Anders would non remember, the readers, have a better perspective to Anders personality He did not remember his first lover, Sherry, or what he had roughly madly love about her, before it came to irritate him-her unembarrassed carnality, and especially the cordial instruction she had with his unit, which she called Mr. seawall As in Uh-oh, looks like Mr. Mole wants to play.This is an example of Anders personality when he loves a charwoman and adores her choice of words of how she called hes genital and gets him irritated after a while. Anders did not remembered his married woman whom he had also loved before she exhausted him with her predi ctability. Another example of roughly iodin he loved that he got tired of. Anders did not remembered his dying mother saying of his father I should have stabbed him in his sleep. Another example of a negative experiences that accrued Anders that left a mark and vanished his unreserved and made him bitter. The highlight of this part of the plot is a memory of a much earlier effect in his life that shows a contrast to the cynical, sarcastic character whose comments cost his life.As a boy, Anders true and admired the musical qualities of someones faulty grammar and had the wisdom not to ask the Coyles first cousin to repeat his words that the other chelas wont think him as a jerk, but as an mischievously Anders seems only to find these flaws as a kind of noise and had no wisdom to keep hes mouth shut as expected from him. Here, we see a memory evoked at the secondment of impact. Some one asks the cousin what government agency he wasnt to play. Shortstop. The boy says, shorts top the best position they is. Anders turns and look at him.He wants to attain Coyles cousin repeat what hes just said, thought he knows better than to ask. the others will think that he is a jerk, ragging the kid for his grammar. But that isnt it, Anders is strangely roused, elated by those final two words. Their pure unexpectedness, and their music. He takes the region in a trance, repeating them to himself. Here we see what Anders is actually enthusiastic about, and likes the words for their music, even though they be grammatically wrong, as he repeats them to himself it puts him into a trance in the field.Here he celebrates the truthful unexpected usage of words that sounds beautiful to his ear. In the first part the reader gets to know Anders the book critic, His known for the weary, elegant, savagery with which he dispatched almost everything he reviewed. hes character is very cynical, sarcastic and arrogant. Through out the story Anders was sarcastic, cynical and critic izing everything, that was the cause of his death. In the beginning when he is waiting in line, in the bank, one of the tellers closes her position, Anders was listing to the woman in front of him complaining Oh thats nice.One of them said, she turn to Anders and added, confident of his accord, one of those little human touches that keep us coming back for more. Anders had confident(p) his own towering hatred of the teller, but he immediately turned it on the presumptuous weakly interacting massive particle in front of him. Damned unfair he said tragic really if they are not chopping off the wrong leg or bombing your ancestral village they closing their position. She stood her ground. I didnt say it was tragic, she said I just think its a pretty lousy way to treat your customers. Unforgivable Anders said. Heaven will take note.Even though that Anders was upset from the position closing, he took his anger out on the lady in front of him by being sarcastic, cynical and arrogant. Its ironic that Anders said Heaven take note and in the end he is the one that got shot. We witness how the love of words get Anders to react in a careless way slip away your big mouth shut the man with the pistol said, thought no one had spoken a word. One of you tellers hit the alarm, youre all dead meat. Oh, bravo Anders said, Dead meat.He turned to the woman in front of him. Great script, eh? The stern, brass-knuckled verse line of the dangerous classes. Anders critic of the robbers choice of words makes him act in away if like he is the audience of a bad play and shares hes critic with the ladies a front of him. Anders mocks the robbers and feels superior to them by saying The stern, brass-knuckled poetry of the dangerous classes. . This is evidence that proof how passion Anders is for words and is not aware of any danger that force communicate. When the robbers addresses Anders hey Bright boy Did I tell you to talk? No, Anders said. Then shut your trap. Did you hear that? Anders said. Bright boy. Right out of the killers.Anders is mocking the robbers choice of words, instead of be quiet like an adult should behave in this kind of situation, but he is behaving childishly and risk himself and the people that are next to him. Anders got the robbers attention and they made him look up the ceiling, he couldnt help it, even when the robbers are pointing a gun to him and warned him a few time Anders started to laugh at the robbers face and got shot. Whats so funny, bright boy? Nothing. You think Im comical? You think m some kind of a clown? No. Fuck with me again, your history, capiche? Anders burst out laughing. Covered his mouth with two of his hands and said, Im sorry, Im sorry than snorted helplessly through his fingers and said Capiche-oh, beau ideal , capiche. And at that the man with the pistol raised the pistol and shot Anders right in the head. This moment in the plot emphasize my argument, Anders love of words with his negative past expe rience is what led him to his death in the bank and he couldnt help him self to get out of it. If this situation happen when Anders was a child he probably wouldnt say a word to the robbers, but as an adult he couldnt act wise and shut up.