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Originally Posted by Catlady
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.
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But nobody deserves the bad breaks handed out unevenly by the universe. Roy was unlucky, yes, but not uniquely unlucky, and he had his chance at redemption at that. In mythology, Iris is the messenger of the gods; in this case, Iris was the messenger
from the gods, but Roy ignored her until too late.
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... especially since he's destroyed after he tries to do the right thing at the end.
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Timing! Hubris and irony: Roy had his chance when he was blasting the foul balls at Otto; that his epiphany only came after he misfired and struck Iris ("Christ! Another one!") was his tragedy, but he brought it on himself - which is one of the markers of tragedy.