Dick Prosser Character Analysis

Dick Prosser is compassionate like a ‘‘child’’ and hot-tempered like a ‘‘tiger’’. For humans being able to shift in and out of whatever personality they lust is very dangerous. It also contradicts the true meaning of kindness and what it really means. After reading the story I had a different terminology of what it really meant to be kind. At first the author makes Dick appear to be the most sincere and skilled human being on earth. ‘‘Every stick he cut seemed to be exactly the same length and shape as every other one’’ (724). The other characters in the story noticed Dick’s precise behaviour and commented in that manner. I believe Dick got his view of the world from being in the army. Being in the army is tough and the slightest mistake can cause great hardship to your fellow troops. Dick having had his first job as a solider he was raised up with the mentality of everything must be perfect. I think that really impacted Dick Prosser’s attitude.
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‘‘On the table there was always just one object: an old Bible almost worn out by constant use’’ (724). Dick being religious is another factor of why he could have done what he did. I think maybe thought doing what he did was an act of repainting the people in the town for their sins against him. He could have not interpreted from what the bible had actually meant. He (he- as in God) will repaint people for their trespasses against him. Different interpretations of the bible are a great problem in today’s world. Some people see what God has meant to be as a good thing as a bad thing. Well, that is only my opinion. I can’t say I’m right because everyone has a different view of the world. It’s possible that the different interpretations of the bible are the cause of the crisis’s that are going on around the world like ISIS. We will never really know if he was particularly Catholic, Christian or even