“Bullet in the brain” is a short story by Tobias Wolff. The protagonist of the story is called Anders, a book critic. The man, in the story, started out as an impatient, disrespectful, arrogant critic who, throughout the story, makes sarcastic comments to the robbers of the bank where he was which, consequently, gets him killed. The main character is presented in most of the story as being a selfish and cruel person. His general critical nature of the world introduces him as an eccentric character who the reader has a difficult time to understand.
The notable unperturbed attitude he had in relation to the bank robbery was a curious aspect of the story because it introduces his ungovernable attitude towards the bank robbers. His reciprocal …show more content…
Meanwhile, Anders is not an enjoyable character and in the story, cannot be considered even an anti-hero. Subsequently, when he is shot in the head by the robbers, the author told of many past moments in Ander’s life that conduct to the beginning of the story and the decision to become a book critic. The author begins to list things that change completely the way of the lector to see Anders. When Anders was shot in the head the first thing he remembered was not his family, was a baseball field and this is the curious thing about it. In the text says: “This is what he remembered. Heat. A baseball field. Yellow grass, the whir of insects, himself leaning against a tree as the boys of the neighborhood gather for a pickup game... The others will think he's being a jerk, ragging the kid for his grammar. But that isn't it, not at all - it's that Anders is strangely roused, elated, by those final two words, their pure unexpectedness and their music. He takes the field in a trance, repeating them to himself.” The author shows in the description that was the only time when Anders wasn't critically about anything. He liked to play baseball games with his neighborhood friends. These were the things that humanize Anders. However, that was also the first time where he listened to his friends having exaggerated self-opinions and being sarcastic. He remembered all that and repeated it. That is what conduct him to being a book critic. The author, makes the readers understand the real reason why Anders became critical with