Summary Of Matt Fowler's Short Story 'Killing'

Imagine that one is a parent with children, in a small town, and one day a child that one raised was murdered in such a gruesome way that it makes someone cringe. The next thing that happens is that one finds out that the man who had killed the child was released by the police and is roaming around town freely. The next thing that one realizes is that one has kidnapped the man and is taking him to a secluded area to kill him. Once there one has thoughts about letting him go, but one cannot because one has already commenced the crime so one must go through with it. A man who was once the killer with a victim is now the victim with a killer. One kills the man and when it is all done and settled one buries the body and disposes all of the evidence and now feels guilty about what one has done. This is what had happened to Matt Fowler in the short story "killings". Matt had gone from many emotional transformations in this story resulting from him being the hero in the beginning to becoming the anti-hero in the end. In the beginning of the story one finds out that Matt is a family man and that he cares and would do anything to keep his family safe. One also finds out that Matt's son, frank, had …show more content…
Though some may argue that the emotional transformation of Matt had not changed him as much as the physical transformation this transformation was still able to influence a giant part of matt's character and life in the story greatly. Sometimes the emotional transformations, however small they may be, have a bigger impact on the character in the long run than the physical transformations have. The decisions that Richard had made in the story had affected both him, and Matt and had changed them both tremendously, emotionally, as individuals and after that they could not help but keep changing until the climax of the