The Life You Save Could Be Your Own is an interesting title due to the fact that he chose to save his own life and abandon a person he brought into the outside world. The entire story revolves around the character who has never lived a life that saw him connected to the world. He even tells Mrs. Crater that he has held different types of jobs in the past and the fact that he was only twenty-eight should have worried her. It was interesting to see how much he fixated on a person just because of how desperate someone could be. Mr. Shiftlet felt forced to marry Lucynell and did so to satisfy Mrs. Crater. At the end of the story Mr. Shiftlet ended up running away from the girl he had just married, the only reason he did so was because he felt depressed about getting tied up when he wasn't ready for it. The Life You Save Could Be Your Own is an apt title, and even appears on the road Mr. Shiftlet is driving on; fits by showing how he saved his own life by choosing his own destiny, letting the girl find her own destiny, and how life will never end like this....