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In the short story “The Third Thing That Killed My Father,” Raymond Carver explores the life of the town outcast. Through the observations of a young boy and his father Carver tells the story of a man caught in himself, and captures the true essence of a mans character and his conflicts. Dummy the town outcast finds himself in a struggle to protect the one thing that makes him happy, a schoo ....
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.... to fifteen feet,” my father said one evening looking over his newspaper. “Which is three feet over what you need to flood. Old Dummy is going to lose his darlings.” Even though, Dummy protects his fish from unwanted fisherman he cannot protect them and himself from forces of greater power, the force of nature.
Another one of the conflicts in the story is Dummy’s struggle with himself. Dummy was never really loved which pers ....
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