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This quotation, the final sentence of the story, concisely summarizes Proulx’s approach to the three main themes of “55 Miles to the Gas Pump”: isolation and rural life, violence and desire, and the subversion of folktale morality. Proulx suggests that “living a long way out” (or being isolated in the desolate rural landscape) can lead anyone—including “you,” the reader—to develop warped, “uncivilized” ideas of morality and pleasure. Moreover, the euphemistic use of “make your own fun” to refer to murder and necrophilia makes violence and enjoyment effectively synonymous, emphasizing the immoral nature of what the Crooms understand as “fun.” Finally…