The Friendly Matter Of Violence Analysis

Even though Will tries to show off how he’s superior than others through revenge, he also displays another form of violence by doing it in a “friendly matter.” The friendly matter of violence is being shown when Will is play fighting and verbally teasing them. One of the acts were in the batting cages with Chucky. Will and Chucky are chatting amongst themselves. Once it started to get emotional, Will ended up throwing a baseball at Chucky. Since, showing affection is considered “strange” to them, so the only acceptable manner that they could do to show affection is by “play fighting”. Another, “friendly matter” of violence that Will displayed was to verbally teasing someone. Morgan was one of the people that Will “jokingly teased” to. A scene
that this occurred on was right after when Will called Skylar on the payphone, but then Will clicked on Skylar, but clicked on her right after. He went back to the car where Chucky, Morgan, and Billy were, then Chucky asked Will who did he call. Will lied and said he didn’t remember the phone number. Morgan responded by saying “You fuckin’ retarded? You went all the way out there in the rain, and you didn’t bring the number?” Will quickly witted Morgan back by telling him “No, it was your mother’s 900 number. I just ran out of quarters.” The quick-witted humor that Will shows everyone that, Will knows how to stand up for himself in any occasion, and he is capable of unintentionally hurting someone without knowing it. These two reasons shows the viewers, why Will show people that Will has friendly manner of displaying violece.