Too Obsessed by Money and Having Less Time for His Family
“Trying to put the jacket out of his mind, he hurried along the street. While he was waiting to cross Fifth Avenue, a man standing beside him coughed
painfully. Then Tom remembered about the leather jacket – remembered everything about it as clearly as though he had never forgotten. It had been
back in 1943, not many months before Germany started to disintegrate. Only he hadn’t known than that Germany would fall to pieces—it had seemed as though
the war would go on forever. It had been in December, early in december, that he killed the man in the leather jacket, simply because he needed the jacket for
himself.” p. 72
From the quotation above, the writer can see why Tom remembered about
simple thing, a leather jacket. His purpose is just want to take the jacket for himself, it was in December, it is on winter season, jacket is needed. Why does
Tom just ask for the jacket? The answer is no. The man in the leather jacket had been armed, he had been an enemy, the worst is he had been a German. So
killed him is legal. If he didn’t kill him, maybe Tom is killed at that time. The following quotation is a proof for the explanation above
“No, it hadn’t been like that at all. There was no use making it worse than it was. The man in the leather jacket had been armed, he had been an
enemy, legally decreed such by several governments. He had been a German, and the Germans were different from other people, or at least it
had seemed so at that time.” p. 72.
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