Prisoner's Dilemma is a master trope for relaying the permanent impasse or dilemma of cooperation versus defection.In Prisoner's Dilemma Richard Powers narrates a multiform of dilemma mainly narrating Eddie Hobson's traumatic history, along with Eddie's attempt to carry out a strategy—Eddie's ideal Hobstown which is supposed to cope with the confused dilemma.Pow?ers'strategic moral insights are revealed by assuming that each player feels sympathy for the other and a moral cooperative instead of antagonistic solution to the Prisoner's Dilemma will be found.