Question #3

 

                In the game that Rearden plays against Wellpinit, Rearden wins by about forty points. In the beginning of the game Arnold tells a news reporter “The thing is, the best player on Wellpinit, Rowdy, he used to be my best friend. And now he hates me. He gave me a concussion that first game. And now I want to destroy him.” (Alexie, 185). Junior keeps this mentality because after months of being hated and (metaphorically) punched by the rez, he wanted to (metaphorically) punch back. He keeps thinking this until the end of the game. When he looks over and in that moment realizes that he himself was taking it too far. At the end of the game he went to go cry because he had been so mean.