Bullet in the Brain

6) Anders is not a sympathetic character from the exposition to the climax.  Does your sense of him shift over the rest of the story?  Does he become more sympathetic to you?  If yes, account for this. 

It is very true to say that Anders is not a sympathetic character from the exposition to the climax. At the beginning of the short story I viewed Anders as witty, rude and sarcastic. He reminded me of a young boy trying to impress his classmates. He also came off as not being a very dynamic character. I would have described him more as a flat character at the beginning. After the gun shooting however, my sense of Anders does shift over the rest of the story. I think Wolff does an excellent job of displaying Anders now as a dynamic character who is sympathetic and very intriguing to the reader. After reading it multiple times and knowing from the beginning what is going to happen you get a sense that every think that he does and says is just another puzzle piece to his life.