A couple of days after the fire, Mort went to the insurance company concerning he and Amy's ruined house, and it was no surprise that Ted was present as well. With Mort and Amy figuring out what their next steps were for the house, Ted as Mort described was "rubbernecking", or in other words being extremely nosey and inquisitive, and the more he was in Mort’s presence, the more Mort began to convince himself that Ted had some kind of connection with John Shooter because all of this couldn’t just be some kind of coincidence, it was he, Ted, who was to blame for all of the miss happenings. Now as much as I would've loved to believe he was the antagonist, unfortunately he wasn’t. All he was, was a prop in all the madness. It soon started becoming clear to the residents of Tashmore that Morton Rainey had lost it. He was loosing his mind and becoming less and less in tuned with reality as Shooter became more and more in tuned in his reality. Then the climax struck when Amy decided the divorce settlement was taking far too long and decided to go by and have him sign the divorce papers herself. When she arrived to his small, wooden, remote cabin she got more than what she was in for. On each and every wall, the name "Shooter" was engraved and to her surprise was Mort, with Shooter's black hat on! Morton Rainey...was John Shooter! It was him who killed his cat Bump, it was him who burned down the house, it was him who kept on leaving that black hat and cigarettes behind, it was him who took the hat down from the attic, and it was him who'd been going on the rampage in Tashmore County! Everything bad that happened was because of him! And now he wanted to end his story just as he planned in the book, by killing her and burying her in the garden she loved more than him. So she looks at him in confusion as she sees all that he's done to the walls, and what he has done to himself. At that moment she knew the man she was staring at wasn’t Mort, and Mort knew he wasn’t Mort. This was her red flag to quickly get out of there, and as she approached the door he chased after her. He stabbed her in the back of her leg and was ready to finish her off but immediately he stopped, not because he wanted to but because he was dead. Fred Evans had saved Amy's life, but taken Mort's. And now that Mort was dead, so was John Shooter... the figment of his imagination.
Quotation:`
"Good! he wanted to cry out at her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!" (King 348)
Analysis:
This quote was referring to the night when Mort busted in on his wife (Amy) and Ted at the motel and caught her cheating on him. At this point he felt relief because she had finally realized the pain he felt when he saw what he did, and how it really broke his heart, and how it was that, that triggered his hidden anger and gave John Shooter existence and presence in his world.
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