Lee to Austin, "I mean you never had any more on the ball than I did. But here you are gettin' invited into prominent people's houses. Sittin' around talkin' like you know somethin'…In fact I been inside some pretty classy places in my time. And I never even went to an Ivy League school either." In the play "True West" Austin, the protagonist, is a kinetic character. In the beginning of the play he …showed first 75 words of 1253 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1253 total…his neck. Austin is seen choking his brother and tells his mom, "I can kill him! I can easily kill him. Right now. Right here. All I gotta' do is just tighten up. This sudden change in temperament is very savage and seems like something his brother would do. Over the course of the play Austin changed from a good-natured, successful man into a raw, savage with no morals as depicted in the final scene.