Thread:Godzillafan93/@comment-6052796-20141004121045/@comment-6052796-20150129033236

My favorite example of a Sympathetic Jerk is in a short story by King. Well not so much a short story but an anthology clip based off his work. It's in Creepshow under "Something To Tide You Over." Imagine a teeter totter of sympathetic jerks. The first is a rich man named Richard Vickers who just discovered that his wife Becky is cheating on him with another man named Harry Wentworth. So he goes to face the man. Now automatically one would sympathize with him because let's face it, the girl cheated on him. But then you see how he get's even. He meets Harry, threatening that something very nasty is gonna happen to Becky if he doesn't come with him, bringing a recording of her screams with him. They go to a private beach called Comfort Point which Richard owns and forces Harry at gunpoint to bury himself up to his neck in sand near the shore promising he'd show him Becky. Which he does. He brings out a TV to show him that Becky is suffering the same fate as he is, but she's further away and the tide is coming in at her side. It's not long till Harry is next. To make things more fucked up, Richard is recording both of them so that he could add it to a collcetion of taped videos. Much of the clip shows them both suffering and dying from the whole ordeal while Richard watches the whole thing at his beach house TV. Of course being a King work, death is merely an obstacle when it comes to this sort of thing.