Response to “I Bought a Little City”

This is short story is talking about the narrator who buy a little city wanted to be the god of but finally failed and realized the truth is he can never control other by his personal idea even he own the city.

In the story, he did three things to show his authority. The first thing is to find a satisfactory place for homeless people. At that time, he own the city for the first time; every thing looks pretty for him so the triumphant narrator ignored the difficulty of finding such place and got his first setback. It makes him feel disappointed but he didn’t give up show authority, which he thinks he is supposed to have but is not admitted by the folk. Therefore, the second thing which is shooting six thousand dogs without reason happened when he only can use animal as a warning to others. Then it also failed because the pet owners hate him kill their dog. Finally he fall in love with Sam’s wife but the truth is that it is impossible to force Sam’s wife love him. The three failures sober him up; he realized he is an average person which cannot be the smartest. His delusion will never come true.