Adam’s delusional life is perpetuated in California. He is comfortable. In the zeitgeist of the novel, he hires a Chinese-American, named Lee to serve as a housekeeper. And voila! You have another character with a desire for controlling other people. Lee tells Samuel that he likes having control over his master from the seemingly humble position of a servant. Lee pretends to be a foreigner, to throw off suspicion of him. The chunk ends with an awkward dinner with Adam, Cathy, and Samuel. Samuel leaves the dinner, having been largely ignored. Meanwhile, Cathy tells Adam that she didn’t want to come to California.
Why do you think characters with underlying desires for control are rampant in this book?
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