Reading Tobias Wolff’s story, “Bullet in the Brain,” Wolff decided to tell us, the readers, what Anders did not remember after he was shot by the robber because Wolff wanted us to understand Anders better as a person and what he has been through in his life. I believe Anders went through life changing events such as disappointment in love and marriage, growing family, his dying mother, and going to college. For example, “He did not remember his first lover, Sherry, or what he had most madly loved about her, before it came to irritate him” (75). Anders began to get irritated with Sherry when she repeatedly called his unit “Mr. Mole.” Next, “Anders did not remember his wife, whom he had also loved before she exhausted him with her predictability”