Tommorrow

I was not too impressed with the short story Tommorrow. I love to read but I was unable to really get into the story. It seemed to be a little long winded for such a simple plot. I did enjoy the few twists that the story took. It was interesting that the narriator was not really involved in the action of the story. It was through the eyes of what would have been a child at the time. I was also surprised by the situation that caused the man to refuse to let the man of for murder. I was kind of expecting his reasoning to be more along the lines of mine. That no matter how bad of a choice his daughter made in choosing her husband, it was her choice and he had no right to kill the man. This was the real problem that I had with the story. The begining speech that the lawyer made seemed to be more in favor of the man not getting away with what he did. He mentions that a life can only be repayed with another life, but the story never says anything about the boy killing anyone. It does mention that a gun was found in his hand as if he planned to kill the dad too. But he did not even shoot at him because the dad killed him before he ever got the chance. Perhaps I am just not that well versed in the ideas of justice back in the old days, but I was confused by the fact that it was supposably a open and shut case, and that the one man was the only one who thought it was wrong t let the murderer go unpunihed.