In “To Hell with Dying” we follow the life of our narrator and her relationship with Mr. Sweet as she grows up. Mr. Sweet is a sick old man whose multiple meeting with death has given him a unique skill or what others may call a guardian angel. The prerequisite for his skill to come alive is for the narrator’s father to call out “To Hell with Dying!” and right on cue, the children would swarm Mr. Sweet with there affection. With the lovely description the story paints of Mr. Sweet (he gets drunk on his own homebrew and chews tobacco) most readers would wonder how a family or even a community can be so accepting of him, this just shows how love doesn’t judge a person by there habits but who the person truly is. As the narrator lives
