“She would’ve been a good woman,” said The Misfit, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”

First, it’s ironic enough that the one who murders the grandmother is the one to make this statement. Of course the strange truth is that it speaks to the human condition. We’d all be better if we felt pressured to be, if we were literally under the gun.

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