The Life You Save May Be Your Own

The Life You Save May Be Your Own is the first of four short stories that I have read. This short story really made me mad, and I am a person that does not get mad often or easily but this story somehow did the trick. The thing that made me the most mad is that guy that shows up and takes advantage of that poor old lady and her deaf daughter. From the very beginning of the story when that man first showed up, I knew that he was going to do something to hurt the old woman and her daughter in some way or another. These characters are always so easy to pick out because they always seem to show an exceptional amount of feelings to one thing, and in this story the man had his feelings directed to the broken down car. The whole way through this story the man took complete advantage of the old woman and her deaf daughter. He was even completely sneaky about it all. He always told the old woman what she wanted to hear and did what she wanted him to do. All this man did the whole story was suck up to the old woman and her daughter by building a new roof on the greenhouse, helping out around the house, and actually talking Lucynell (the old woman's deaf daughter) like a real person. Throughout this whole story Lucynell even starts to like the man. At the end the man fixes the car, has it repainted, and then gets money to marry Lucynell and take on a some what honeymoon. The thing that made it the worst was when he leaves Lucynell in a diner and takes off without her. He did not even leave her anywhere near home. So overall, this story really made me mad. I felt really bad for the old woman and Lucynell, but at the same time I hated how they were so gullible and most of all I hated how that man could be that heartless.