In "Gold-mounted Guns" by F. R. Buckley the minimal use of characters was very effective in building the plot and making Pa Sanderson's expressions that much more hurtful. If there had been a town of people who were being stolen from, the effect of the many people would have made it so it was just another regular occurrence, but it didn't and when Pa Sanderson's money had been stolen, you felt for the old guy. Also by using the characters he did, he was able to make them symbolize people within society and make the theme of the story much more critical and understandable.
Because of the character symbolization he made it so that sympathizing with Pa Sanderson and his daughter was possible and real. He made Pecos Tommy out to be a false image like a movie bad guy; he made it so that Pecos Tommy was a fake leader. He did this by building his character up with young Willie Arblaster's mouth. If Will would have just spoke like Pecos Tommy was a low down, dirty criminal, not someone to look up to then we would have just read the story and the ending wo
Pa Sanderson and his daughter I thought symbolized the same thing in society just different levels of it. Pa Sanderson was just an all out victim, an old man who had never received such a lump of money his whole life and then in one trip to town his life had taken a 180-degree turn for the worst. His grief although he didn't know it at the time helped him to be reunited with his money. His daughter was also a victim but she was the type to find ways around it and stop grieving over the losses. She was the type of person who would go through her whole life without ever complaining about bad service or any related thing. She was the type who would just accept what happened and find a way around it no matter how hard it hurt inside.
Will Arblaster was used in the story because he was a symbol of a follower someone who needs a leader because they are incapable of doing a deed on their own. In our society he would be the type of person who followed Hitler and believed that his way was the right way. Although near the end he changed he became a dynamic character eventua
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