Button, Button is written in 1970 by Richard Matheson. It is a short story about a young couple who get the opportunity of receiving fifty thousand dollars at the demise of another person whom they don’t know?
Norma and Arthur are a young married couple, who live in a flat together in New York. Their relationship is quite normal, you don’t really hear about any romantic talk other than a goodnight kiss. Norma seems to put herself first a lot. When she received the offer she didn’t really think about the demise of another person, but how to spend the money, i.e. a trip to Europe, buying a cottage in Ireland or having the baby they’ve been longing for. In spite of that Arthur thinks about the consequences thoroughly and refuses to press the button. At home they discussed the box an awful lot. Norma was very curious of what the man had to offer, whereas Arthur didn’t seem very intrigued, and thought it was some sick joke.
Norma thought about it only being an “old Chinese peasant ten thousand miles away”, after all it might as well have been a young innocent boy, from across the street. But Norma did clearly not think it through. Little did she know her husband would be the one to die, and that the money she would receive would be from her husband’s insurance.
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