End of Corruption

Another very important scene it when McAdoo and Wylie approach Chance. McAdoo just wants to talk to Chance. Fitz stops McAdoo and they get into a fight. Fitz ends up cracking something on McAdoo’s upper body. Wylie pulls out his gun and shoots Fitz square in the head. He then shoots Chance on the stomach. Then he finishes him off. This was a very powerful scene. “ The wailing of police sirens saves me. Wylie swings his head to the sound, swings back to Chance, decision written on his face. You ought of just talked to him. We would be in Canada now, happy… Wylie has dropped the gun and is gazing at the rain as it drums down harder and harder. I hear its wild thrashing on the canvas roof and, underneath that, the keening of police sirens.” ( Vanderhaeghe, 322) I could picture this clearly in my mind, Wylie shooting Chance, the rain beating down hard and the sound of police sirens. Wylie ended up going to jail, and he hung himself. This part just kept replaying in my head just as if it was on continuous loop on a movie. I never saw it coming.