Sucker By Carson Mcculler

Have you ever noticed that everything you do or say has a consequence? In the short story “Sucker” by Carson McCullers, one of the points or themes that McCullers tells readers is that every choice, every action, everything, someone does has a consequence. For example, in the story when Pete yelled at Sucker for getting on his nerves and told him nobody cared, the result of Pete saying that was the relationship between Pete and Sucker would be different, almost broken. The text says “‘Nobody cares anything about you!’ . . . And later when I wanted to apologize as I had planned he looked at me in this new hard way so that I couldn’t say a word.” (McCullers). Another example, when Pete asked Maybelle out and she said no, Pete would change as