In "The Curse", by Andre Dubus, Mitchell is the main character of the story. He is a 49 year old bartender and witnesses something very terrible one night at his bar. A young female patron is attacked, raped and seriously beaten by five males from the bar. Mitchell doesn't do anything to save her. Mitchell should have saved this young girl from tragedy. If he would have helped her he would feel better about himself, he wouldn't have to feel ashamed for not stopping it, and wouldn't be faced with this curse of pain, terror, and grief.
             If Mitchell would have helped the young girl he would have felt better about himself. He was very remorseful and throughout the story he said "I could have stopped them."(417). He was very scared on that eventful night and therefore didn't do anything to help her. The only thing he did to stop them was an attempt to reach for the phone to call for help. But that didn't work out because he was being guarded by one of the men.
             He did care for the girl very much and truly wished he would have done something to stop the crime. If he would have tried he would at least know he did everything in his power to stop the crime from happening, instead of letting it continue while doing nothing about it.
             Mitchell felt very ashamed for not stopping the crime. He knew from the beginning that those guys were up to something, but had no idea of the severity. "He knew that they were on drugs and had a passion that was strange and disturbing" (417). He also ashamed he couldn't say anything to the girl after the incident. "He wanted to speak to her, hold a hand or press her brow, but he could not." (417).
             Mitchell should have done something to stop these men than he wouldn't have to live with this girl's curse of pain, terror, and grief. It's obvious in the story that the reason he is cursed is because of not stoppi...