Matheson states, “Slowly the heat of the liquor expanded in his stomach and reached his body…His house was a dead house. Fury exploded in him. Enough! His rage-palsied hands ripped out the clothes from the bureau drawer until they closed on the loaded pistols…He watched their bodies jerk as bullets struck them…” (35-36). After becoming a little tipsy, Neville becomes triggered by the realization that Ben Cortman and the rest of his vampire goons destroyed the generator fueling his house. Neville going after the vampires during the nighttime while they are already outside is futile and he knows this. The anger is supplied by his dependency towards alcohol. At night there are endless amounts of vampires outside that need to be shot with a high-level accuracy to debilitate. Attacking them was caused by a clouded judgment do to alcohol and paint Neville to be a monster in his own right. The plot depicts him senselessly killing the vampires in a fit a rage with zero outcome other than being set back by losing missing
Matheson states, “Slowly the heat of the liquor expanded in his stomach and reached his body…His house was a dead house. Fury exploded in him. Enough! His rage-palsied hands ripped out the clothes from the bureau drawer until they closed on the loaded pistols…He watched their bodies jerk as bullets struck them…” (35-36). After becoming a little tipsy, Neville becomes triggered by the realization that Ben Cortman and the rest of his vampire goons destroyed the generator fueling his house. Neville going after the vampires during the nighttime while they are already outside is futile and he knows this. The anger is supplied by his dependency towards alcohol. At night there are endless amounts of vampires outside that need to be shot with a high-level accuracy to debilitate. Attacking them was caused by a clouded judgment do to alcohol and paint Neville to be a monster in his own right. The plot depicts him senselessly killing the vampires in a fit a rage with zero outcome other than being set back by losing missing