Matty's Boyfriend Analysis

Charity- 1.the voluntary giving of help to those in need. This definition is what Charles Baxter called the situation of which Matty Quinn and our narrator have found themselves in. More importantly, charity is the action that the narrator, Matty’s Boyfriend, supposedly provides. Charity, an inappropriate way to describe his helpfulness. Charity is voluntary. The volunteers get little to nothing back from your work. The Narrator, however, does. He receives the heartache. The narrator’s actions display his feelings all the while he concedes that he is doing it while, “Not loving him.” Baxter starts the story in third person, deceiving the reader into thinking the story is anything, but a retelling. In fact, the story is a retelling of accounts from the narrator’s perspective. This fact is learned in the second half of the story marked, “2.” In the first section, we learn of how

The narrator saw it as it was when, “they had met in Africa and fell in love over there.” He even stated that Matty is, “My boyfriend, my soulmate, my future life,” and, “to Matty I would have given anything.” Stating his love for him. Thus stating his search in the name of love for Matty. With the information that Matty had given over the narrator went looking for him- starting with his drug dealer. After getting the information he needed he moved on to find him, and after searching for over a week, found him. Stating that, “this wreck was my beloved Matty.” He forces him to come to his hotel. He bathed him, shaved him, fed him and put him to sleep. He got his love into a facility that could help him so he could have a better life. All, “out of love [he] had once felt for [Matty],” saying that he no longer felt his love after he did all of these things and more still to