Though Will, by breaking into this drawer and stealing the gun, may be experimenting with his own violent tendencies, the novel also suggests that Will doesn’t have to let his dark side define him or end his life, as it did for Shawn. He was, despite his best intentions and everyone’s fears, a person with a violent streak that ultimately led to his death. Both Will and their mother ignored this, however, just as they ignored the clear evidence that there was a darker side to Shawn than the jovial, loving, and neat brother and son that Will and his mother wanted to see. Will explains that the broken middle drawer was the only thing out of place on Shawn’s neat and tidy half of their bedroom-and furthermore, it contained Shawn’s gun. The middle drawer of Shawn’s dresser symbolizes the darkness and danger in Shawn himself.
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