![]() Heck, I’ve said some of them, something I am ashamed of having done. ![]() I’d say that Whitehead is being rather unsubtle here, caricaturing the views of the left and right, but at least as far as Kaitlyn goes, I have heard far too many of those things in my own circles. ![]() Both Gary and Kaitlyn are revealed as much by who they denigrate as anything else they do. For Kaitlyn, the former preppy girl, “this scourge came from a different population.single moms incessantly breeding, flouters of speed laws, and those who had only themselves to blame for their ridiculous credit card debt.” The sort who didn’t attend parent teacher conferences, and ate fast food too often. For Gary, the marginalized mechanic, he envisions the undead as the people who have disrespected him, the establishment finally getting theirs, the people who have called him epithets of all kinds, and called the cops on them for noise. ![]() One of the most disturbing scenes in the book comes as the author reveals how these defense mechanisms work for other characters. ![]()
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