This story was an interesting read for me. I found myself often torn because the writing was good and I appreciated the skill of it, but the content was hard to get through and frankly, I had to put it down and try to read it again later. The way the story ended was really interesting; We’ve been spending a lot of time in class on stories with ending right before the big lead up of an event comes to fruition (in this story, the reveal of the article’s contents). I thought that the way the author characterizes the people in the story was really interesting. Particularly, I found myself almost sympathizing with the narrator despite them being a person I couldn’t like because of what they had done. The impact of the narrator’s actions on their life and success is almost pitiable, particularly when you consider the perspective of the wife and daughter who did nothing wrong but be associated with this guy. The way the author uses the internal monologue of the narrator to show his thought process and how he justifies his actions was really interesting to me.