Monroe Short Analysis

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Monroe Short shouldn't be talking to Wilgus the way he is because he is a child. As an adult you are supposed to act much more mature than a child. A normal adult would never offer a child a cigarette. LIke he could say that he did know his age but anyone could tell that he was a young child not over the age of ten. Then later on during the car ride he was talking about his “wives” then he asked Wilgus how many wives did he have four or five, then when Wilgus told him his he didn't have any wives he only “ i'm only eight”. Like what adult brags about how many people they married to a child then he tries to say he thought he was in his twenties or thirties. Come now no one would ever confuse Wilgus for a twenty or thirty year old. Wilgus doesn't even look like he is eighteen, so how in the world would he be in his twenties or thirties.In all Monroe Short was just being a rude as he could toa boy he pick up walking …show more content…
As the story rolls on you can tell that Monroe Short just pick up Wilgus just to be a douche. Like he has an attitude as he opens up the door then as they are riding Monroe Short just keep annoying Wilgus , when he offered Wilgus a cigarette Wilgus said he is fine and didn't want it. So Monroe Short told him to take one and when Wilgus said ok is give the one he was chewing instead of one of the four unopened ones he just pulled out then when when Wilgus told him he didn't want it to began with Monroe going to act like he was upset. Then he started talking about Wilgus mother and father and how Wilgus father was beating his mother and they would be wrassling all the time and his father would go out with his girlfriends and his mother would go out with her boyfriends . Not only that he was saying that Wilgus father would be beating Wilgus up. He kept going even though Wilgus said it wasn't

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