importance? Everything that happens in the novel is based on what people think should happen. Chance becoming a prominent man from the start because he was wearing a business suit that belonged to the old man. His appearance made people think that he was wealthy and smart. Kosinski satirized the industrialists of our world. He satirized the industrialists through the eyes of Benjamin Rand. After Elizabeth Eve took Chance home, Chance was introduced to Ben (EE's husband). At dinner they talked about businesses. Chance chose to behave in a way that he saw in a "television program of a young businessman who often dined with his boss and the boss's daughter". This way of acting made Ben think that Chance was a businesses man. Ben liked Chance because Chance was very humble, and because he didnt talk unless he was spoken to. Chance told the Rands about the garden, which he planted, and Ben interpreted it as something that had to do with business. Chance said, "It is not easy, sir, to obtain a suitable place, a garden, in which one can work without interference and grow with the season.... I've never seen a garden. I've seen forests and jungles and sometimes a tree or two. But a garden is which I can work and watch the things I've planted in it grow..." Ben replied to Chance, "A person who makes a flinty soil productive with the labor of his own hands, who waters it with the sweat of his own brow, and who creates a place of value for his family and for the community. Yes, Chauncey (Chance), what an excellent metaphor! A productive businessman is indeed a laborer in his own vineyard!" (BT 34) Chance does not understand what Ben is talking about. The only thing that he knows of is the garden, and Ben interpreted the conversation as a business conversation. Here Kosinski shows that people interpret the words they want to hear from what other people say. Jerzy Kosinski satirizes the president. Benjamin Rand introduced chance to the Pres...
