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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Never turn to Hardy if you need something cheerful!
I think you have a very good point astrangerhere - there is a certain Hardyesque feeling of doom driving Roy from one disaster to the next. Though it's more his own fault, at least partly, than his simply being a pawn of the malicious fates.
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I think the whole "pre-game" section shows him as a pawn of the "malicious fates." He's had a miserable childhood, baseball is going to be his salvation, and then, boom, Harriet shoots him and takes it all away. He doesn't deserve any of that; all he is, is a cocky and ambitious kid.
In the "batter up" section he is not the innocent victim, but still, his punishment is way out of proportion to his faults, especially since he's destroyed after he tries to do the right thing at the end.