In the tense moments leading up to the fight, how can you tell that this isn’t the narrator’s first rumble?
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He can tell from the stiffness of the shoulders of one of the other men that their casual attitude is a feint and that they are getting ready to jump him (par. 80). He instantly sizes up the disadvantages of his position: the room is too small, the men are too close to him, and his gun “isn’t a thing of miracles. It’s a mechanical contraption that is capable of just so much and no more” (par. 84). He quickly runs through his options in his mind and discards each one in turn as he realizes its unworkability (par. 88–90). He calculates the odds of how many of the four men he will be able to shoot and how they would most likely act under the circumstances (par. 92 and 99). All of these considerations and assumptions are obviously derived from a great deal of experience.
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