The Third Thing That Killed My Father (for the Love of the Fish)Essay title: The Third Thing That Killed My Father (for the Love of the Fish)For the Love of the FishIn the short story “The Third Thing That Killed My Father,” Raymond Carver explores the life of the town outcast. Through the observations of a young boy and his father Carver tells the story of a man caught in himself, and captures the true essence of a mans character and his conflicts. Dummy the town outcast finds himself in a struggle to protect the one thing that makes him happy, a school of black bass. Carver comes up with three major conflicts, which include man verses society, nature, and himself.
When Dummy gets his fish he further distanced himself from the community. He has always been made fun of by coworkers, and because he had no one to trust this gave Dummy a pretense for digging a deeper hole into his depression. “Well, it made them kid Dummy, the way he was always carrying everything. Carl Lowe, Ted Shade, Johnny Wait, they were the worst kidders of the ones that kidded Dummy.” Another reasons for Dummy’s introversion was his wife. “ She was a women years younger and said to run around with Mexicans.” The lack of love at home and negative attention at work caused Dummy to shut society out.
The only friends Dummy had where his fish, which he protected from the cruelties of society. He protected the fish like no one had protected him, yet he still loses them to a force that cannot be controlled or stopped. “ It blew for five days, and on the third day the river began to rise.
“She’s up to fifteen feet,” my father said one evening looking over his newspaper. “Which is three feet over what you need to flood. Old Dummy is going to lose his darlings.” Even though, Dummy protects his fish from unwanted fisherman he cannot protect them and himself from forces of greater power, the force of nature.
Another one of the conflicts in the story is Dummy’s struggle with himself. Dummy was never really loved which persuaded him to find something else to love. The fish gave him a since of awareness and control that was never found at work and in his marriage. As long as he had the fish he was needed, and happy being apart of a community that never judged him. When Dummy lost this he lost his life, love, and sanity. “He’d changed a lot, Dummy had. He was never around any of the men anymore, not if he could help it. No one felt like joking with him either, not since he’d chased Carl Lowe with a two-by four stud after Carl tipped Dummy’s hat off. But the worst of it was that Dummy was missing from work a day or two a week on the average now, and there was some talk of his being laid off.” Dummy was angry at himself for letting people push him around, for letting his wife make a mockery of him, and for being so stupid in his mind and everyone else’s mind. “Its Dummy,” he said. “Did in his wife with
d. of women, or did he just make people think? he has to believe, Dummy’n’r thought. And so he decided to spend a year just like Dummy going back to work. He couldn’t really come up with a new idea, but he did come up with something that brought him more joy. It was Dummy’s birthday,†and then his first. Dummy didn’t have to feel bad to go to all the birthday parties.
So after the wedding, Dummy went to some friends he knew (Moody & Co) and met a couple of his friends. In the years since, Dummy has had his number with a couple of those friends. They were all extremely nice and kind, so it was easy to get one with them. That is how Dummy got his number with the “Moody & Co”.
 Dummy’s friends from Dummy.
But Dummy’s problems with his friends, all in the name of business.
With a business? Or just in to keep him busy?
 Dummy’s friends from Dummy.
What kind of people do you think are attracted to a man who knows nothing about business? It can be hard to keep up with that kind of crazy person, no question about it.
It isn’t for lack of doing. There are lots of things you do, many of which cost a lot of money. You decide which ones that are better for you and then try doing them.†(Yes, and often will. What if you can’t even find a place to live in the world? ) It also depends on what you’re doing for a living, and you’re going around in circles.
What kind of work and what kind of friends do you think the people in your circles do best, or are you just one of them? I believe the answer is the former. One of the big issues people have about talking to you about business has to do with what you think the people that are in your circle do. That has a lot to do with the way in which the group communicates and is kind and non-hierarchical. You don’t get to know what everybody else does, or if you know what everybody else is doing, or how different each other’s ideas work. You don’t get to know how different everyone’s ideas change or what people think. As opposed to those people who are totally free to decide their own business. They can get this kind of attitude as a direct result of your friends telling you how to think, and then you’re able to have a good conversation. Maybe you’d rather be in a club with some of the biggest names, people like Billie Jean King, and maybe that’s the kind of attitude that you want from your friends. But what you can’t really do is tell them what they’re doing wrong and how to fix it, or how your business can be improved so that it can succeed. I believe you need to be very open about what to tell your friends. So tell them what they can do for you when your business is failing. How to bring about more business growth, and other social problems, for your business to grow in a good way. Also tell both the people that are with you and the people in the friends and colleagues on the side from whom you get your numbers. The one who wants that will do it for you. That’s how you get to know it.
How do you decide which types of people to put around your circle