Coming Through Slaughter Passage 1

''Right on my head. But I still have the razor and we stand looking at each other. The blood drooling off his chin onto the wet shredded shirt. He takes a quick look at himself in the mirror and the tears just rush out of his face. I am exhausted, sorry for him. ''

Pg. 73

This line of the book clearly shows Buddy Bolden fighting against his friend Tom Prickett, and making him bleed with his razor. Buddy at this point of the book shows a much more aggresive side to him, in which he becomes so violent, that while cutting of the beard of his friend Tom, he attacks him and injures him severely on the face. Later we would discover how his wife, Norma would enter and see the fight, and end up being shocked at the horrible bloody scene.