in the short story two kinds
"Leonard is a very good writer he manages to get into his characters and build a believable situation." "The writing is tough and realistic. The approach does owe something to George V. Higgins, but Leonard is nobody's
follower, and he has a style of his own.
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I'm pretty sure it is Theme.
Theme is the central topic of the text. passage, story, or anything else. So it may possibly also be the same for the underlying meaning and universal truth...but again, I am not sure.