Decisions In The Short Story Virgo By Jess Walter

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“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours” (Wayne Dyer). The outcomes of your decisions can be determined by how you decide to react. A psychotic person does not really consider that concept. Their thought pattern would really amaze you. It’s as if their thinking is as equivalent to a child’s thinking. A child does not know that things they do are childish, whereas the same, a psychotic person does not know what they are doing or saying is crazy. In the short story “Virgo” by Jess Walter, we are narrated by a psychotic, revengeful Trent. As we all know, revenge seeking, most times, never ends well. Revenge can cause a person to do idiotic things without even being able to acknowledge what wrongs they are doing. As the story begins, Trent was explaining his side of the tale to the cops after founding him in a car accident. He went on to say, him and Tanya have been in a stalled relationship with stunted growth and that she thinks he is a psychopath. He tried to persuade her that the relationship would get better, but instead she kicked him out of their condo. As he was walking to his car with his luggage at hand, he saw…show more content…
You can hurt a person in different ways more than just physically. You can drive yourself crazy trying to get revenge on a person. You are always worried about what that person is doing or who that person is with rather than focusing on what should really matter in your life. Negative thoughts will constantly creep into the crevasses of your mind especially when your feelings for who you are trying to get revenge are deep. Your thoughts would be that people you are in a relationship with or love would never hurt you, because they love you. Frankly, they are the people that actually hurt you the most. When someone you love dearly hurts you, the amount of revenge you would want may take a wrong turn and/or result to drastic

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