The Good Humor Man" tells the story of Jay, a 16-year living in Midwest suburbia, circa 1976. Jay and his group of friends could be described as juvenile delinquents, yet Jay is drawn to Wendy.Wendy and her "jock and jockette" friends are the antithesis of Jay's group. Increasingly, Jay is faced with making life choices. Does he stay loyal to his best friend Rushmore even though he believes Rushmore has killed a jock (Ritchie Rubin) or does he listen to the voice of reason, conscience and morality coming from his father?Will his love for Wendy pull him from the surroundings he has known into a world, which he has in the past denigrated? Jay finds out that in fact one of his gang, Smelly Bob, has killed the jock and not Rushmore. In the climax of the story, Smelly Bob stabs Jay with the same knife he used to kill Ritchie. Jay literally holds onto the evidence thus making a choice to do the moral right. As for Jay and Wendy, we know they love each other but are not sure if their love will surmount the obstacles they have faced but they have shared an experience that has left an impression on both of them.