Death by Scrabble

Death by Scrabble

What would you do if you were 42 years old hated your wife and had nothing to do but play scrabble? You hated your wife so much you wanted to kill her. This is what happens in the short story Death by Scrabble by Charlie Fish. If you hated your wife and the only thing to do was play scrabble with her would you quit and never play that game again. I believe that Death by Scrabble was one of the best short stories that I have ever read.

This was a great short story because of the way that Charlie Fish had written it and the words he had used for the story. During the game of Scrabble that his he and his wife were having he went first and was glad that he was winning because she hadn’t gone yet. Then when it was her turn she was winning from the placement of the word she played. She played the word JIXED and from there on out everything that they played would come true. He had a habit of chewing the pieces. With how Charlie Fish had wrote the story like that really got my attention. With how he wrote that got my attention the game and what he thought and played was great two.

The way that Charlie Fish had written this was great and was very deadly because the main character only wanted to kill his wife. While they were playing he played the word BANG and the air-conditioning blew up. He also played HOT and he got really warm. While they were playing the whole time he was thinking of words to put that would symbolize that he wanted to kill her. Towards the end of the game he played the word CHEATING and from that word he cheated when he placed that word. While she was getting tea he swapped one of his letters so he could make the word CHEATING. At the end of the game he had a “B” in his mouth and he played the word QUAKE and then immediately she placed DEATH and an earthquake started and pushed the “B” down his throat and got stuck and he died.

This is the reason that I believe that this was a great short story and was well written other than the part of the main characters didn’t have names they were called his wife and him. Death by Scrabble was written as a narrative so the male main character was called I or myself. That is when I thought that Death by Scrabble was one of the best and most likely is the best short story I have ever read.