Playing games with people, I don’t understand  

“Suppose it’s genuine?”  

Arthur stared. Incredulous “Would you murder someone?”  

Norma looked disgusted. “Murder if you don’t even know the person?”  

Some old Chinese peasant? Some diseased native in the Congo? Some beautiful little girl on the next block?  

“What’s the difference whom you kill? It’s still murder.” Life. Death. A chance.  

His face was white. She shuddered.  

“I’d rather not.”  

The found poem above was taken from the short story “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson. It shows the character versus character conflict between Norma, the protagonist, and Arthur, the antagonist. Norma and Arthur’s conflict in the rising action of the story demonstrates that Norma has materialistic views and no sympathy for other humans. Norma’s desire for money-oriented objects drives her to press a button for 50,000 dollars in exchange for the death of a stranger. Arthur, her husband, tries to stop her and says, “it’s immoral” and a sick joke. In the end, as Norma presses the button for her own benefits, she kills her husband. When she angrily calls the man who offered her the decision, he does not feel sorrow for the woman, “My dear lady, do you really think you knew your husband?”