has found out information on his personal life. Alan hits hard at what Dysart was apparently thinking about himself; Do you have girls behind her back, Do you *censored* her? Dysart ignores these at first but looses his professional cool when Alan begins yelling I bet you dont touch her, you have no kids. When Alan leaves Dysart places another scientific label on Alan calling him an advanced neurotic, wicked and perceptive. Talking to himself, Dysart continues he knew exactly what questions to try and Ever since I made that crack about carving up children, hes been aware of me in an absolutely specific way. Instead of Dysart getting into Alans head, Alan is getting into Dysarts head and doing a good job at carving things up on his own. Dysart describes his wife to Hesther, the social worker in the following scene obviously disturbed by his meeting with Alan. My wife doesnt understand me, She got exactly the same from me, Antiseptic proficiency shows how there exists no intimate relationship between Dysart and his wife. He comments that he has no children and if he did he would come out exactly like his mother, utterly worship less. Dysart speaking of Alan asks What am I to do with him? and Hesther replies Restore him to a normal way of life to whom Dysart questions what exactly is normal. Dysarts attitude towards Alan goes from one of irritation to one of envy during these scenes of self-examination on the part of Dysart. The normal is the good smile in a childs eyes-all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills-like a God. Dysart describes his life as giving people a normal life, normal thoughts and a total normal being. By spreading the awe of normalcy, Dysart begins to realize that he is instead doing a great injustice to humankind. I have cut from them (his patients) parts of individuality repugnant to this God, in both his aspects. Sacrifices to Zeus, took sixty seconds, sacrifices to the Norm...
