'A Literary Analysis Of Stephen King's Rest Stop'

Stephen King’s “Rest Stop” Literary Analysis
Horror and fantasy are Stephen King’s specialties; writing about ones worst fears, or most adventurous dreams. As for his short story, “Rest Stop”; it captures what a well-educated man with split personalities reacts when brought to a difficult point in life. He is famous for not only writing novels and short stories, but creating such stories to make them become hits in the box office. The way his stories can end up grasping reader’s attention and bringing them into the story, there for making him the best horror/fantasy author of all time.
According to Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2015, Stephen King was born September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine. His parents Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King
He stepped out of his car and when he locks it with his key fob his thought was “and for a moment he saw his shadow in the brief flash of its headlights.., only whose shadow was it? Dykstra's or Hardin's?” This was one of many points where he shows his split personality. He also says that Rick Hardin was left miles behind at the party where he had given a speech. “John Dykstra never would have worn faded jeans and cowboy boots to a public function, especially one where he was the featured speaker, but Hardin was a different breed of hot rod.” As he is walking to the restroom he sees a poster full of missing children. “How many of the kids in the photos, he always wondered, were buried in the damp, sandy soil or feeding the gators in the Glades? How many of them were growing up in the belief that the drifters who had snatched them (and from time to time sexually molested them or rented them out) were their mothers or fathers?” This such a scary thought and it brought up what if this story is about a missing child? But as he moves on towards the men’s room he hears a voice from the women’s. "No, Lee," she said. "No, honey, don't." He froze where he was. There was a slap and then a thump. He claims himself as John right now as he states the he is listening to the “unremarkable sounds of abuse.” He then start to imagine what she may look like what color is her hair. He then hears a Lee’s
The man that sandbagged Lee, or just the man. Which was misleading for a little thinking that someone else had arrived at the scene. Finally when Rick decides that he has had enough and will walk back to his car he refers to himself again. It was like he was lost as Rick and not himself, and when he was finally coming down from that adrenaline rush he became John again. “Then, all at once, his stomach was in his throat, still full of the chicken and potatoes he had eaten at the Pot o' Gold.” This shows that once coming back to normal it made him sick like it would do to any normal person who would experience something like