In “A Brutal Murder in a Public Place”, Oates utilizes different point of views to prove that humans care more about their own happiness than animals rights. The beginning of the story is narrated through the perspective of a passenger who hears sudden chirping and finds themselves desperately wanting to find the bird. The narrator describes the creature’s calls of help like “an improbable and heartrending little musical trill, like an old-fashioned music box!” (Oates 21) This remark demonstrates how a human being can find pleasure and even musical entertainment in an animal’s way of…