Terrell Smith
English 11
18 September 2017
Mr. Barazzoul
Character sketch
In the story “Two Fisherman” written by Morley Callaghan the character Smitty is, “A mild,
harmless-looking little guy”( Morley Callaghan 1). He is also the executioner in the story he came to
town for two things to fish and to execute Thomas Delaney. Smitty is a nice person. He wanted to go
fishing to bring home fish for his wife, so he could feed his family. Smitty looks like, “ A little fellow
without a hat, sitting down with his knees hunched up to his chin, a very small man with little grey baby
curls on the back of his neck” ( Morley Callaghan 1). Smitty becomes friends with Michael the other
main character in the book over a fishing trip; they did not catch any fish, so Smitty offered to go again
tomorrow. Smitty was hesitant to answer Michael’s questions about his work because if he told him that
he was the executioner that he would just perceive him as a bad person. Smitty’s job as the executioner
makes him seem like a bad person because his job is killing people, so he is usually not loved by the
people. Before he did the execution he gave Michael two fish that he caught that day because Michael
couldn’t come fishing again. Then he did his job and executed Thomas Delaney. On that day their were
reporters there to report the event, and Michael was one of them. They all didn’t like Smitty for killing
him but that was still his job. They all threw any objects they could find at him. One might think that is
not fair because he is just doing his job like anyone else. Then someone stole the fish the Smitty gave
Michael and threw it at him; so Smitty felt betrayed.