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Forever Changed In Andre Dubus short story “Killings,” the author portrays Matt Fowler in a way that you sympathize with him. Dubus shows in Matt an array of different emotions. As the family attends his son Frank’s funeral, Matt displays great sadness and anger in the death of his son. In the beginning of the story even as Matt is grieving the loss of a son, he is plotting revenge. Matt says, “He walks the Goddamn streets”, in regards to Frank’s killer Richard Strout (84). Matt believes justice won’t be served until Strout is dead and off the streets. His comments and actions throughout the beginning of story show that Matt intends to do just that, remove Strout from the streets. Matt is angry; he is upset that his son’s killer is walking the streets on bail, and that his wife sees him on a regular basis in town while she is running errands. He muses, “I didn‘t think of bail.