The Reader is the Protagonist

                Based on the reading it seems the narrator of "The Reader is the Protagonist" wants the readers to see the monster that her ex-husband is. She begins by giving the readers a vivid picture if the man her ex-husband was. When they first were dating he was very open with her saying the phrase "Baby, my life is an open book". However, after they married she began to see that a lot of the words that he spewed were just lies. If she ever complained about his erratic behavior, he would say " Never judge a book by its cover". This was a contradiction to what he had said earlier to her.  Eventually he told her about the murder he had committed at the end of a terrible fight they had over a broken dish. He goes on to say that he killed a man that had raped a neighborhood girl but the man was never convicted for the crime. The narrators husband goes on the say that he had run into the rapist at the drinking hole in New York. Together they shut the place down drinking and talking about their lives. Afterwards the narrators husband suggested they take a walk by the East River and right there by the water was where he had shot the rapist. He pushed the body into the water with no remorse and claimed the rapist was trash that no one would miss. All while he's talking about his so called heroism he is grabbing his wife arms clearly hurting her. He thinks he's a hero but in reality he just seems like a mad man. The narrator realizes that he fooled her and he wasn't the man that she thought she knew. Now she just wants the reader to see that too.