The last whispers of Mort Rainey is the prove of his anxiousness, he feels worry about the out coming of the call even thought John Shooter didn’t say what
have he done. He feels the terror of the call, the anxious feeling of Mort Rainey are the fuel of the panic attack, the more anxious the person, it will become the
more intense the panic will be.
4. The Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
A mysterious man name John Shooter comes at the front door and suddenly accused him for a plagiarism, by showing his story manuscript. And
these man is insisted him to remake the ending of the story by anyway he can; these vaguely threatening incidents send Mort Rainey into paranoia after the man
kills Mort Rainey’s dog to show his seriousness. And then he hired an ex-police
as his bodyguard Ken, after the dog killing and he believe that John always
stalks at him all the time. And he tries to find out that John Shooter is, he ask the local sheriff to figure it out see the dialog below.
“Mort Rainey: So, what I’ve got is detailed descriptions of him and his car. You know, I didn’t get the license plate number…but
I’m sure it had a Mississippi tags, and I thinks it started with an A. That’s what I see in my mind…anyway, anything
you can find out about this guy, I’d appreciate it.” “Sheriff
: I must cut quite an intimidating law-enforcement figure, huh?
“Mort Rainey: I’d like to know what I’m dealing with. Maybe he has a violent history?”00:26:15-00:26:45
He was obsessed by this man and his story that always came to his mind soon after he read it in the kitchen and found out that his story was very similar in
every ways except for the title, from then he was growing increasingly distracted and alienated, Mort Rainey forgets everything even the divorcing process.
Although he is assures about his own story and never do any plagiarism, he still confuses about the mysterious man and how come he had the same story as him.
He tries to confirm to his wife about the story and ask him to search for the magazine that published it with him name on it. Soon after his house was burning
by someone he is become more concern about the existence of John shooter, he also has an assumption that John is hired by Ted his wife boyfriend. See the
dialog below. Ken: I’m revising my opinion. Mort. I don’t think Shooter’s just
some nut. We need to consider the possibility that he was hire to do this, somebody whit grudge against you hires tough guy to rattle
you…scare to death, but he hires the wrong guy. Thing get out control, they go further than they’re supposed to, dead dog, burnt-
down the house… Now he can’t call him off.
Mort Rainey: Ted Ken: who?
Mort Rainey: Ted, Amy’s Ted. The Ted that Amy left me for. 00:52:30-00:53:06
From the text about the writer assume, how he was so curious about Shooter and obsessed about it. He also has his own compulsion about and one of it
is. He washes his hand after throwing Shooter manuscript away, as if he is cleaning of the false accuse upon him see the picture below,
1. 2.
3.
Figure: Picture 1 and 2 shows the repetition act and picture 3 is the compulsion,
he washed his hand after that 00:07:42-00:07:49
From the picture above we can assume that in his mind unconsciously obsess to Mr. Shooter in the first place, he is throw the manuscript twice without
any hesitation and after that he washes his hand as a compulsion to his obsession and after that he always check on his window and door to make sure it is close and
lock. It is because, the compulsion is a repetitive act that individual feels need to do and compulsion is appear as the effect of obsessive thought and it could harm
individual’s life and also create a significant distress and anxiety.
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5. The PTSD post traumatic stress disorder
