The one part of The Wild Sheep Chase was similar to the short excerpt that we read which was The Mirror. I felt like after looking at himself in the mirror, he was dissociated with himself up until he left the place. Boku would mention how it would look like him but it was not him but another person who looked like him. Boku went into lots of details of every movement and thought when he was in front of the mirror, I wonder what his thoughts were and why he felt that way.
The ending was somber and now that Boku has lost everything and had to start over, it also reminded me of Terry Lennox when he created a new identity for himself. This might be a long stretch but the relationship between Boku and the Rat is similar to the relationship between Marlowe and Terry. I felt that Boku and the Rat can be true to themselves compared to any relationships they had with other people where they had a different front which is similar to Marlowe and Terry's. Technically the relationship between the characters is still there but it feels like they also ended in some way.
I am still confused as to what happened in the ending as well as the significance but it felt like it was about self weakness or reflection? Why did the secretary send him out when he knew all along. Why did the Rat not come out to the secretary? Was it because he was not pursuing him out of his own free will unlike Boku's?
- Caroline Huynh
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