Gaitskill Rhetorical Analysis
I do not agree with your discuss, the message did not focus on violence and murder thoughts. The message you quote “Gaitskill is trying to write about the inner conflicts of the people who have this deep feeling of joy and excitement at the sight of violence’’ (Diaz). However, there was more to the story then violence the authors wants us to know he’s trouble past, but to bring awareness that no one is alone that people share thoughts like that, for example Doug. The narrator is influence about his childhood of lack parental figure to guide him in the right step, which leads him to fight the other place alone, his alterative ego where he’s in dominance, but that act scares him because he sees himself in Doug, but the difference is Doug has