nged her will so that if the boys married they cold not leave the farm to their wives.Now Mrs. Greenleaf was a fat, dirty woman who did not take care of care of her family nor her house. She was one of the neighbors close by and the wife of her employee, Mr. Greenleaf. Mrs. Greenleaf would spend all of her time doing “prayer healing”. That is, taking clippings of bad stories out of the paper and burring them in the woods. She would then do some ritual over them. Her husband worked for Mrs. May and was always had to be told more than once to do something before he would actually do it.The conflicts of this story was mostly man vs man and man vs nature. Throughout most of the story there is a bull roaming around the farm eating the shrubbery and taunting the animals. Later in the story we discover that the owner of the bull is actually the Greenleafs’ boys, O.T. and E.T., who lives at a nice farm that was partially provided by the government because they were sergeants in the army. They let the bull go because it smashed up their truck and then ran away. Mrs. May tries to get O.T. and E.T. to come pick up their bull, but they never show. The turning point of the story is when Mrs. May orders Mr. Greenleaf to shoot his sons’ bull. Now when he’s told to do this he tries to avoid it, but Mrs. May practically forces him to go out and hunt the bull. She drives him out to where the bull is and orders him to chasethe bull out away from the herd of cows and to shoot it.The Denouement, or climax, is when he chases the bull up to where Mrs. May is waiting by her car. Now when she sees the bull, she just stares at it with no sense of time or distance as it plows into her. When this happens Mr. Greenleaf shoots it four times through the eye. When the bull descended, Mrs. May was still stuck to its horns making it appear that she was bending down whispering into the bulls ear. In doing so, Mrs. May confirms how she did no...
