clothes he wears and his overall attitude. Dan on the other hand gets respected even by people who don’t know him based on his appearance and the kind of people he associates with. He is expected to act with a sense of pride and self respect and have good values. Eddie is expected to be a deviant and even if he were trying to be polite would still be viewed as deviant. When Dan is placed in the poor looking clothes and not given anything to show his stature appearance wise, he becomes “disorganized”. When Eddie is placed in nice clothing and a nice home, he is started to be treated with more respect and starts to act more mature. The people he used to associate with he now sees as deviants, as in the scene where he throws a party in his new home only to throw them out. One goes from a deviant to a man of good values with a sense of deviant behavior and not stepping beyond that line. The other goes from a man of good values to a deviant man with no sense of right and wrong. This entire movie shows not only these two perspectives but also how they really can affect individuals and a society.4.One theory that could be used to analyze Eddie Perry would be the neutralization theory. Its not quite clear in the beginning but towards the end it starts to mold him and make more sense. I had trouble figuring out why exactly he would make these stories up. And why he would sell, but only sell certain drugs and in certain amounts or at extremely high prices yet would take others drugs for free. At first I thought it was sort of a power trip but them came the infamous PCP incident not to mention his moment with LSD, his most feared drug. Neutralization theory in a sense, makes excuses up for the individual to do deviant acts. In this instance, at first he won’t even think about selling PCP. No way is he going to sell this drug. He has heard of too many bad things happening resulting from this drug being tak...
