In the short story “The Life and Death of Delano Klein” the author seems to just be telling a story and there is no overall purpose to life, except to simply live it, the tone is very serious and even with several humorous stories in the beginning the tone is not the least bit humorous.  The story is awfully dull and is just what it says it is the life and death of Delano. But the author goes about it in a roundabout way, he just shares little pieces of his life, he offers no comments or analysis, just little snippets.  The repetition of Delano’s boredom offers some evidence of why Delano is the way he is, because he is bored and that is his only motivation to do anything.  He used to read, then became interested in Refrigeration, later he married and had children; he was still bored, and filled his time with building a house.  Soon he grew bored again and decided to go to college, then he drove off a cliff and died, this happened out of nowhere, it just happened. It happened so abruptly that the reader had no time to adjust and there was no way to really for see it which was confusing because we expect there to be resolution or an epiphany but there is none. At the funeral no one knew what to say, they didn’t really know him, he so quickly changed and molded his interests and was often bored.  It appears in this story that life is just about going through the motions, there is no real meaning, everything happens in sequence as life should but the main character is not dynamic in a real sense, he is always bored, that never changes and then one day he just dies.  Even after he takes a liking to poetry and it seems to have had some profound effect on him, the resolution we were hoping for, we find he just stole his wife’s work, Delano was an odd character and no one really knew him.