When a person feels no remorse for his actions, there tends to be reasoning behind this emotional detachment. Molly is tough. Her domineering personality has been exposed through her dealings with other characters throughout the book. I believe that Gibson is using Molly\u2019s anecdote in Chapter 15 in order to show that no matter how hard someone\u2019s exterior may seem to be, everyone is subject to the hardships that life brings.<\/p>\n
When you meet a person who is rude, spiteful, or, as in Molly\u2019s case, coarse, you do not really consider why that person is the way he is. You just judge him. Gibson sheds some light on why Molly behaves the way she does by briefly recapitulating her past experiences.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the reason Molly has such little respect for human life, is because of the disrespect for it that she has witnessed throughout her lifetime. Molly explains that her lover\u2019s death was similar to the death of a rat that she witnessed. The old man who killed the rat pointed the gun \u201cat the floor, grins, and pulls the trigger. Rolled it back up and left\u2026(Molly) crawled under there later. Rat had a hole between its eyes…the second one, the one who came for Johnny, he was like that old man\u2026he killed that way\u201d (177).<\/p>\n
This traumatizing experience made Molly aloof. She \u201cnever much found anybody (she) gave a damn about after that\u201d (178). Had Molly never endured this pain, she would probably be more naively content and innocent than she is now. Yes, she was still a criminal back in the day, but she had never felt the wrath of human depravity first-hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When a person feels no remorse for his actions, there tends to be reasoning behind this emotional detachment. Molly is tough. Her domineering personality has been exposed through her dealings with other characters throughout the book. I believe that Gibson is using Molly\u2019s anecdote in Chapter 15 in order to show that no matter how<\/p>\n