In the time i get

In the short story “In the time I get” by Chris Crutcher gives an example of not letting prejudices get in the way of being a friend and becoming the bigger person because of it.
“I wont tell I said and I knew this time I wouldn’t. It’s hard for me to lie to carter he’s my best friend but I promised”. This story is about a guy named Louie who’s girlfriend had just died last winter and is having a hard time, but what he doesn’t know is that death’s not through with him yet and in an unexpected way also. At the bar he works at, a man walks in in a very elegant way, he has never seen this man around the small town before. Louie introduced himself to the guy and finds out that he’s the boss’s nephew; he wonders why his boss Dakota hasn’t told him that Darren was coming. Darren and Louie start talking then he found out that Darren had ADS and that he was going to die, Louie took off and avoided him for a while because he didn’t deal too well with the death of his girlfriend, and because he didn’t know or really want to know how Darren got ADS. Louie talks to his dead girlfriend sometimes and he remembered that she wasn’t afraid to do anything or care what people would think, so that’s how he got motivated to talk to Darren and learn more about him and to also become his friend. Darren and Louie start hanging out more and more, Louie’s best friend notices that theres somthing up with darren, and tells him to stay clear of that Darren guy because he’s gay. Louie said I didn’t have to worry about what anyone else was thinking he was just a funny sad guy… “But I love myself for what I did say. I said yes”. (Holding Darren’s hand in hospital) In the story Chris Crutcher gives a example of one person who over came there ignorance and became the bigger person by doing so. In the end he gained a friend and lost one.