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Stanley Hubbel is a quiet man, that probably lives in Brooklyn, or at least close by. He has had a nervous breakdown and his therapist has told him to paint occasionally. Stanley does not take this painting very seriously. However, he still want his Sundays with painting to be silent, but a lot of guys have started to play ball in the yard which Stanley’s apartment building owns. These guys are big violent types, and they are, as Stanley describes them, barbarians. When they play ball, then it is with no respect at all. They yell and scream, drink beer and destroy the plants which Stanley has planted by a nearby wall. Stanley wants this ball playing to stop. He had asked a police officer earlier, but he just smiled and told Stanley that the police really have other things to do than to stop some guys playing ball, and Stanley really wonders about this, but hen doesn’t ask any more questions because he can see that the police officer looks like he could be one of the ballplayers, only in a uniform.
At a point in the short story, after Stanley had noticed the ballplayers, once again, that the hedges he had planted near the wall, was not to be stepped on, one of the ballplayers just yells back at Stanley that he should go to hell, and after this he says he want a drink. In this story Stanley wishes he had a gun, but he finds the next best thing. A big stone, which he found on the beach once. He sticks it out the window and lets it go, right down on the head of one of the ballplayers. Stanley’s apartment is about 20 feet in the air, which means his apartment is not on the first floor, so the stone must have been dropped from a height. Stanley realizes that he has killed a man, and quickly starts to paint his painting. He does it very fast and he is scared of the ballplayers and the police. He knows that they could come get him anytime, and that is why he is painting so fast, the fact that someone is after him makes him fast. He paints swiftly and surely....