Sergei’s conflicting motivation is being sorted out to determine whether or not to use his final wish on Yoni. Sergei decision was hard to decide with the goldfish telling him to use it on Yoni, while Sergei does not want to but just clean up the body. During the decision making the main character is being mollify by the goldfish of speaking “You murdered someone-but you’re not a murderer”(Keret 8). This quote is important because the goldfish is a veracity knowing Sergei for a long time, to tell him that he is not the person who would hurt but to help someone. Sergei just kept on making excuses of not spending his wish on a boy, also trying to find other ways to hide the body instead. According to the author Sergei does try to find ways of