Today in class we discussed why Metcalf is continuing on with the case. Whether it was for his own desire or what. One reason was ‘an old fashioned scale of outrage’. This really is something that is completely believable to me. Since the characters in the book are completely numbed out and need to take drugs to feel, I think that this case is actually giving our narrator a feeling, an ‘old fashioned’ feeling. Meaning he does not have to take any drugs to feel as he does, he just does. This is thrilling for him, it doesn’t matter that the feeling is outrage, it is a legitimate feeling. Than he continues on to say that the world needs fixed, he needs to be fixed. This really has nothing to do with the case it has to do with the lack of genuine feelings in the world. This is why he went to the drug store and paid off the keeper to tell him the drug mixes that they had been getting.
I guess my only question is why does Phoneblum not feel that it is necessary to take the drugs. From what I can remember he is the first man that has really denied the drugs all together, and says that he does not go near them. (except to sell them, of course) Perhaps, it is because he gets his thrills in other ways...
Monica
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