Ethical dilemmas encroach one’s life every day, sometimes people do not even consider it/contemplate between any amount of choices or options, they simply do one instinctively. Bud is one of those types, he makes decisions based on his view of what is best for him, he feels that luck has never been on his side so he should make his own “luck”. Take care of things before it takes care of you.
From the beginning of Nightwoods, a clear situational ethical dilemma for Bud was when he killed Lilly, made even worse when he saw the children had witnessed the whole ordeal. “Bud would have never stabbed Lily if she hadn’t come home unexpected one day” (Frazier, p. 22). Bud believed he was entitled to the money, his money, stolen or not it belonged to him now. Lilly hid it from him and he beat her for it, and eventually he took his anger out on the children, “it became an issue for him to explain bruises and the red marks” (Frazier, p. 22). There was
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When one of her high school teachers, Mr. Stewart, raped her Luce lost her faith in people, not that she had much after her mom, Lola, left her, but she did not trust them anymore which I why she moved far away from the town. Luce had an ethical dilemma that no person would wish upon their worst enemy; she had to decide whether to file a report against Mr. Stewart and have her name drug through the mud, but due to the burning of the high school it already was, as well as relive the night of the rape (Frazier, p. 75). Her dad, the Sherriff, Lit strongly urged/convinced her not to, he said, “A little shit of a lawyer can do you in a couple hours what you won’t let go of for the rest of your life. Stewart’s got a place in this town” (Frazier, p. 78). Luce’s ethics were made from the law, a virtue of non-violence, but the people and perceptions made her a victim that could not do