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55 Miles To The Gas Pump
Clarence Bailey Sr

Dr. Brown

ENG 122

16 November 2013

55 Miles to the Gas Pump

The story of “55 Miles to the Gas Pump” by Annie Proulx represents the distance and darkness that a person can fall when we are at our worst performance. It also looks at the loneliness of isolation and the need of community. There is also a some domination issue in this relation, as well, the wife knew something was wrong, but she did not dare disobey her husband. When see cut a hole to the roof to see what her husband had been keeping from her for twenty years, just as she thought the corpses of Mr. Croom paramours (Proulx) Despite the rancher having a wife he still in some way needs to be around other people. This view is express throughout the story when it talks about the night drinking that the Rancher Croom had. He is so full of himself that even when he was taking his life he had to be in control “before he hits he rise again to the top of the cliff like a cork in a bucket of milk “(Proulx). This reference to the evilness that a person can commit repeatedly. This author clear wants the reader to understand the great evil that lives within us all. This represent why so many people choose to live in community. There is no place in society for this person, so he move far way to be able to commit these hennas crimes. He also knew he had to have a wife whom he could control to get away with this for twenty years. The author does not give you enough information to understand what cause him to take his only life; however, the nightly drinking may be a sign the he did not like whom he was.

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