violent behavior played out by his attitude.Wade was locked into an old familiar sequence: his thoughts and feelings were accelerating at a pace that threw him into a kind of overdrive, a steady high-speed flow that he could not control and that he knew often led to disastrous consequences. But he did not care. Not caring was only additional evidence that he was in this particular sequence again. But there was not a damned thing he could do about it, and not a damned thing he wanted to do about it, either, which was yet a third way that he knew he was in a particular gear again. (Banks 31)Wade is slowly crumbling as his personal life and professional life tug him in different, destructive directions, while the legacy of his violent father drags him down. The people that are supposed to be Wades lifeline, the strong ones in his life, are those that are leading to his demise. His friends and family never really considered his a well put together mind. We all thought of Wade as a dreamer. Most people saw him as tense, quick, unpredictable, and hot-tempered, and indeed he was all those things too. But since childhood, he seemed, when he was alone or imagined that he was alone, sometimes almost to let go of consciousness and float on waves of thought and feeling of his own making. They were not fantasies, exactly, for they had no narrative and little structure, and not memories or wishes, but warm streams of dumb contentment that flowed steadily through his mind and remained nonetheless safely outside of time, as if they had no source and no end. (Banks 94)He is not supported by anyone that should love him. Wade is convinced that Lillian has it in for him, Lillians not out to get you, Wade. You know? (Banks 110) Margie says. Wade replies, The hell she isnt. Lillians been trying to nail me to a cross since the day I met her. (Banks 110) He is convinced that everyone is out to get him. These are the things that are leading him t...
