Bullet In The Brain Character Traits

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Calm at gunpoint, even sarcastic towards the one who is wielding the weapon of his demise, Anders from Tobias Wolff’s “Bullet in the Brain” is a book critic known for his harshness in reviewing books, and this trait carries into his everyday life as he critiques everyone and everything around him. In “Bullet in the Brain”, Anders is first seen as a rude, unsympathetic character, but as the story progresses, Anders undergoes a dynamic change that changes him into a more sympathetic character. In the brief description that Wolff gives on Anders in the beginning of “Bullet in the Brain”, it is stated that Anders is a book critic that is known for his, “...weary, elegant savagery with which he dispatched almost everything he reviewed” (73). For …show more content…
While the bullet of his demise is travelling through his brain, Anders remembers one life-changing event, an event that carved the path for his career. Anders remembers a neighborhood baseball game in a summer of his childhood, but this game was different, for one of his friend’s cousins was visiting from Mississippi. When asked what position he wanted to play, the visiting cousin said, “Short’s the best position they is” (76). Since young Anders had never visited anywhere with accents or dialects different from his own way of speaking, he was intrigued by this southern boy’s way of speaking. From that point on, Anders loved language with all of its’ variations and nuances. This love shaped him into the man that he was at the time of his death. Readers realize that as Anders grew older and worked longer and longer with language that he became burned-out, bored with language. Anders felt like he had seen all that there was to see in his career and he felt as if he had nothing to live for anymore. He becomes a sympathetic character at the very end of the story because what happened to Anders in the story could truly happen to
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