On a cold Halloween night in 1963, in the movie Halloween, a six-year-old boy named Michael Myers was seen stabbing his older sister to death with a giant kitchen knife then he leaves and stands outside the house with a blank expression on his face. As a result he was sent to Smith Grove Mental Hospital from which he escapes 15 years later to pursue 17-year-old Laurie Strode and her friends Lynda and Annie. Warshow's essay, The Gangster as Tragic Hero, describes American society's need to display public cheerfulness and maintain positive morale, as well as its desire for something more sinister, something more brutal. This desire to indulge in the forbidden fruit of sadism and cruelty is what makes the gangster character so attractive to the nation. He's the man about town. He stands out from the crowd as a successful outlaw and his only aspiration is success through brutality. As a gangster, Michael Myers' main focus in the film is brutality; “The practice of brutality – the quality of pure criminality – becomes the totality of his career” (3). This brutality is clearly illustrated in the scene where Bob is attacked by Michael Myers. After Bob finished sleeping with Lynda, he went downstairs to get the beers Lynda requested. As he did so he heard a strange noise coming from the door. Curious, he approached the door and discovered that there was nothing there. Figuring it was just Lynda teasing him, he opens the cabin doors and calls Lynda an "asshole". Unable to find Lynda, he decided to check another one, but he didn't know that Myers was hiding between those doors. The moment he opened them, Myers flew through the door and grabbed him by the throat. Bob attempted to struggle but was unable to overpower him. As he takes his final breaths, Myers stabs him in the chest and watches the light slowly fade from his eyes. Myers