![]() ![]() The burglar taunts him and says Capiche, which makes Anders laugh. Anders sees the painting on the ceiling of the bank and critiques it. Anders is shocked by the burglar’s ammoniac breath, and the burglar uses his pistol to push Anders’s face upwards. One burglar hears Anders, so he walks over and prods him with his pistol. ![]() As the masked men rob the bank, Anders continues to deride them. One man says they’re all dead meat if someone sounds the alarm, and Anders makes a sarcastic comment on his word choice. She says nothing because she sees two masked men with guns standing to the side of the door. Their conversation annoys him, so when one of them turns around to comment on the bank teller that left her station, he replies with a snide remark. The story begins with Anders, a jaded and callous book critic, standing in line at the bank behind two women. Tobias Wolff’s short story “ Bullet in the Brain” is about a man who gets shot and dies in a bank. ![]()
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