| Comment: | To describe this chapter with the word 'unrealistic' would be an understatement. And the word 'understatement' would be an understatement in itself. Nobody would behave like Greg does under these circumstances. The author poses a caricature of human beings. But at least we know now what the consequences of immoral and selfish behavior are. It shows perfectly the vanity of a life without God and without morals based on a sound ideological foundation. Even though Howard is responsible for the death of his grandmother and indirectly also for Jacintha's death, he's still preoccupied with losing his virginity, something that most people would have found totally irrelevant under the given circumstances. And even that he doesn't manage to achieve. And all this is because he is so easily influenced by Greg. Greg represents evil. He is Satan himself. Greg has to die. If he doesn't, it's a useless story. 'Let us eat, drink, and pull chicks, for tomorrow we die.' |
