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Originally Posted by Catlady
Who says people should get only one chance at redemption? Roy had been stomped on by fate so many times, still was a fundamentally decent guy, and was destroyed after he tried belatedly to do the right thing. That's a pretty horrible message.
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Was he a fundamentally decent guy, though? He didn't like the fans, he didn't like the players, he treated Iris badly. I'm not saying a series of unfortunate events didn't go to making him distrustful, but Iris explicitly managed to make her own suffering redemptive. Roy should have learned something during his lean years, too.
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I just realized that Bump was destroyed when he tried to be a good player. Parallel?
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Maybe it was destiny; he bumped into the wall. Clearly names are signifiers in Malamud's world.