You're pretty goddamnsmart, I bet."Then he looked directly at me, just for a minute. "I ain'tsmart," he said. "If I was smart, I'd have reached for a pistol along time ago."
It’s ironic that Sonny got arrested, while the drifter was fine.
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Tm surprised at Sonny, though
It seems like he didn’t know exactly what happened to Sonny.
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That's right.
I’m curious about why the man would do that. Was he kicking Sonny when he’s down?
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childhood
The narrator’s wife was already at the of marriage, why did the man still called it “childhood”?
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In the poem, she recalled his fingers and the waythey had moved around over her face.
Maybe it’s remembering to her to recall every touches from the blind man. I think it’s hard for a person to recall such concrete memory from a trauma.
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even her neck!
I’m really concerned about whether his wife felt offended or something else, but he mentioned she even wanted to write a poem for it, so maybe it’s remembering?
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