
In the story, “Contents of the Dead Man`s Pocket”, Tom Benecke character was ambitious, self-centered, and impatient. These three traits changes throughout the whole story. Tom was very ambitious when it came working, he focuses on to much of the big picture and he fails to hangout with his wife. His trait changes when he decides not to go to the movies with his wife. When the paper flew out the window the second time, he realized that he can always do the paper over again but he can never take the night back with spending time with his wife if he had died. The beginning of the story, Tom was very self-centered and always worried about his work that his wife. He finds that working was more important than his wife, layer in the night he almost loses his life. He stayed alive because he stayed strong for his wife because he care and love her. Tom now became less ambitious, less self-centered, and less impatient with everything, and now that`s his character.


