ugh Bill is portrayed as the working class hero there are several areas where severe flaws can be observed. After leaving his car on the freeway Bill heads towards the nearest convience store to get change to make a phone call. The stores owner, a Korean man, denies Foster the change with out the purchase of an item from the store. Angered by the fact that he cannot buy what he wants and get the right amount of change he takes it out by verbally abusing the owner and destroying his store. Two quotes still stick out from the confrontation with the Korean shop owner “ You come to my country, take my money and don’t have the grace to speak my language” and “Do you know how much the U.S. has given your country?” Author Robert Lee in his book Orientals wrote that the Korean shopkeeper “ represents alienated capitalism, capital literally given into the hand of the alien.” Upon examining Foster interactions with other minority groups such as the Latino group he encounters one can say that he is a xenophobic. Not only is Bill a racist he also does not pay child support and he has a quick temper. When the police arrive at Fosters ex-wife Beth’s house they seem to laugh at her. Since she was never beaten they find her reason for putting a retraining order on him ridiculous. She is portrayed as being a silly woman who was probably just trying to get back at her ex-husband. Her character becomes more significant as the story moves along yet she is still portrayed as a stupid helpless woman. It seems that if only she would have helped him through his bad times he would have been okay. Even with menacing calls placed to her his calls seem justified.Detective Pendergast is what every man does not want to be. He is considered weak by the rest of the police force because he is “controlled” by his wife. By considering her feelings in matters that concern both of them he has become...
