Summary Of The Road Tragic Heads North

When a thought or idea frequently passes through one’s mind, they tend to overthink, causing a mental break down. This is what appears to happen to Richard Kinnell, the main character in The Road Virus Heads North, a short story by Stephen King. Throughout the story Kinnel struggles with a mental conflict, that develops and worsens as the the story goes on. Kinnel began to truly understand fear, as he thinks, “this was how people really reacted when they came face-to-face with something which made no rational sense. You felt as if you were bleeding to death, only inside your head” (king 299). Richard Kinnell stopped at a yard sale where he bought a painting called “The Road Virus Heads North”. He began to see the evil figures in the painting