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Frankappears in No Flies on Frank

Frank is described as an ordinary man. In the story the phrase "no flies on Frank" is used to describe the fact that Frank is smart and responsible. The reader quickly sees that Frank is not completely reasonable despite the fact that he has a wife and a child. When Frank sees that the bathroom scales have him as weighing more than he did the previous day he becomes angry. When his wife speaks to him Frank offers to kill her if she speaks to him again. The wife continues to talk, and so he kills her. Three days later there are still no flies on Frank, but now there are flies on his wife. The reader sees that Frank isn't upset that his wife is dead or that he killed her but seems to notice that he has to now make his own breakfast.

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