Impersonating Elvis
Elvis Presley was a rock icon who gained popularity worldwide. Elvis Presley led a great career, and this brought about individuals who acted as Elvis impersonators. The impersonators work in the entertainment industry, and they try to maintain the legacy of Elvis by singing his songs and making themselves look like Elvis himself. Some of the impersonators look like Elvis while others exhibit his voice, and they are sing alike. Polly Nelson wrote an article titled “Impersonating Elvis,” which featured a character called Chuckie. The individual exhibited Elvis characters, but the narrative had a different ending.
According to the book “Impersonating Elvis” by Polly Nelson, the story is about an individual who has been envying Chuckie Walaach for numerous reasons. The individual who is the narrator explains how Chuckie stole his wife, and his life is much better than that of the narrator. The narrator plans to kill Chuckie to get back with carol when he attends an Elvis concert. Since everyone will be dressed in the same way, he intends to shoot Chuckie, and the police will not know who killed him. However, his plans did not go according to plan since he killed the wrong guy.
The narrator views Chuckie as the cause of most of his misfortunes. The narrator explains that he was supposed to marry Carol, but instead, Chuckie got her pregnant, and he ended up marrying Carol. Chuckie got many opportunities, which, according to the narrator, he did not deserve, but he was the best person available. The narrator got to work at Walaach Bus Company, which was headed by Chuckie, and he was the head of the inventory department. However, he still seemed jealous because Chuckie got to marry Carol, and he was running a huge company. The narrator is not pleased with Chuckie as he tried to kill him so that he can get back to being with Carol.
Carol and Chuckie Walaach studied together with the narrator. Carol got pregnant, and Chuckie had to marry her because he was the one responsible. Chuckie wound up getting credit for most of the things he did in school. He got all the girls, and that made him the class president and later became president of their bus company after his father. However, Chuckie did not show much interest in the business. Carol supported Chuckie, and this is evident where she cheered him during the company picnic, but she had to because it was her husband. Chuckie was obsessed with Impersonating Elvis, and he had even booked a slot in the lookalike contest.
The narrator heard that Chuckie would be attending the lookalike contest, and he also booked a slot intending to kill Chuckie. The narrator used a name that was false so that he could execute his plan in a way that he would not be recognized. He walked into the room and shot someone he believed was Chuckie and disappeared within moments so that he could not get caught. The narrator took a flight back home to find out that he had killed the wrong guy who was a wanted criminal. The bullet had bruised Chuckie, and this made him a hero where he was featured in the newspaper.
The whole occurrence shows how the narrator did not have luck, whereby he tried to kill Chuckie, but instead, he earned him more popularity. Chuckie boasted because of the incident to other people showing that he was proud. The revenge mission plotted by the narrator did not proceed as planned; instead, it brought more glory to Chuckie. This indicates that individuals should openly embrace some circumstances which they face in life.