Rosemary And Dwight In This Boy's Life By Tobias Wolff

Rosemary and Dwight In Tobias Wolff’s novel This Boy’s Life, Dwight and Rosemary have very few attributes in common; consequently, they have many more differences in their attributes. One point of difference occurs in Dwight and Rosemary’s shooting ability. For example, Dwight believes that he is an expert marksman when in reality he is not. This characteristic first occurs when Dwight, Toby, and Rosemary are at the turkey shoot. When Dwight tries to assemble Toby’s gun, a Winchester .22 rifle, he cannot figure it out. Toby then takes the gun and demonstrates to Dwight how to put it together. “That,” Dwight rudely snarls, “is the most stupidly constructed firearm I have ever seen, bar none.” Although Dwight acts as though he knows what he

You ought to get rid of it. It shoots wild. The bore is probably rusted,” exclaims Dwight. Since he is so upset with how he performed with the gun, he decided to give it away. At the end of the competition, they announce the winner, which happened to be Rosemary, and Dwight becomes very upset. He quickly drives home and hurries into his room to pout. On the other hand, Rosemary is an extremely fine sharpshooter and has fantastic aim. At the turkey shoot, the man who is registering all of the shooters passes Rosemary up. He does this because he has no idea that she herself is a sharpshooter. “Well, I am a paying member of the NRA, and that gives me the right to participate in the activities of other chapters when I am away from my own,” Rosemary calmly explains. When Rosemary’s turn is up, she displays her amazing ability when her turn is up. Although she is the only woman in the competition, she shows all of the men what she is made of by hitting all of her paper targets. Rosemary wins the tournament, which infuriates Dwight, and brings home the prize of a fresh ham. She is very humble after the tournament and only casually jokes with

Perhaps the most significant difference is in the way Rosemary and Dwight treat and discipline Toby. For instance, Dwight is extremely cruel to Toby and disciplines him very harshly. Immediately after Toby moves in with Dwight, Dwight begins to treat him horribly by making him husk horse chestnuts nearly every night. On a few occurrences while Toby was in the car with Dwight, Dwight would decide to stop at a bar for a few hours and drink until he was drunk. He would then get back into the car, drive erratically back home, and scream at Toby to make sure Toby was afraid of him. When Dwight finds out that Toby lied to him about being a thief, he beats Toby and yells at him for being a thief and a liar. “I was also a thief. Dwight’s reasoning for calling me one was trivial, based on my having taken his hunting knife without permission. My thefts were real.” Dwight also beats Toby when he finds out what Toby did to his car. In the afternoon Dwight began to ask questions about his car; however, Toby claims he knows nothing about it. Although Toby continues to pretend he knows nothing about it. Dwight then explains that he met the man who helped Toby and Champion earlier that morning. Dwight begins to