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Up to this point in the story, the reader is slightly suspicious that Murray could have killed someone with his bare hands, regardless of how drunk he may have been. However, the third person limited narrator introduces a flashback, revealing why Murray is so loyal to Shorty -- Shorty befriended Murray when Murray was a fat, slow boy on their baseball team. Gradually, Murray lost weight, became more athletic, and the fun Kung Fu moves the boys used to practice while watching Bruce Lee films on TV became deadly serious as Murray became increasingly accomplished in a variety of martial arts.
This suggests that Murray's hands may indeed be "registered deadly weapons." The better Murray got at fighting, the more fights he got in with his friends. The fight the three of them may have not been the college boy's fault, but part of the tendency of Murray and his friends to fight back with their fists and ask questions later. For the...
Murray leaves the gym and returns to the club where the fight took place. He is embraced by the hoppers because he is seen as "bad" because of his physical prowess fighting. Murray applies a harmless but impressive-looking choke hold to one of the boys who asks to be taught how to fight. He knows that the hold he applied was not one that could kill, but one from which the boy would rise. His body begins to remember what happened, and he drives home, resolving to make his body aware of what his mind already knows.
Works Cited
Gwyn, Aaron. "The Gray." Esquire. August 29, 2009.
http://www.esquire.com/fiction/fiction/the-gray-aaron-gwyn-042409
Works Cited
Gwyn, Aaron. "The Gray." Esquire. August 29, 2009.
http://www.esquire.com/fiction/fiction/the-gray-aaron-gwyn-042409
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