The Life You Save May Be Your Own

I didn't really like this story or Mr. Shiftlet. I thought he was a very rude man, and he just acted like a respectable person to get Mrs. Crater to give away her daughter. It did not seem like this is the first time Mr. Shiftlet had stolen a daughter from a mother. It seemed like he may have had some prior experience. I thought that Mrs. Crater had a good first impression of him, and she should have stuck to it. Mr. Shiftlet seemed like he thought he was better than everyone else, even though he only had one arm and he went around doing housework for people. Mr. Shiftlet thought of himself more highly than he should have. I thought it was incredibly rude that he just left his newly married wife laying on the counter in the diner, especially since she was deaf, she couldn't talk, and she had no idea where she was. Then what made the whole situtaion worse was that he went and picked up a hitchhiker, like the little boy was better or more interesting than his wife. I know that she was deaf and she could not talk, and that would be a recipie for an incredibly boring marriage. He still married her though, and he should have a loyalty to her, more than what he showed when he left her sleeping on the counter. Although Mrs. Crater seemed like a smart woman, she did not show much judgement in choosing a husband for her daughter. She married her off to the first man who came along and showed the least little bit of interest, and it goes to show that was a bad decision. It would be terrible to be in the daughter's position because she does not know what is going on, and her mother controls her life.