TR, wrack and ruining Pt2 C2

[Michael Bailey]

adaptation to oppression often includes the element of comedy: if the
oppressor is laughing at you, he might not be beating you

Fuller's actions do seem to go beyond that; without venturing into
questions of political correctness, I wonder if it's okay to just see
him as somebody afflicted with the same sort of magical thinking as
everybody else in the book has to some extent succumbed to.

Naturally, in today's political climate, it'd be hard for a
pigment-deficient writer to create such a character for mainstream
consumption.  However, considering the mercury-poisoned maid, the
half-mad spinster, the dipsomaniacal Reverend Gwyon, Otto's
pathological Narcissism, and so forth...
Fuller's series of recognitions are no less and no more insulting than
those imputed to the other characters: Brown's revelation is PT
Barnum's, with all the mockery implied therein, and all the truth too!

Wyatt's revelation seems distressingly close to Howard Roark's,
something like, intense devotion to his own vision allows him to
believe that nobody else is following his or her muse anywhere nearly
so faithfully as is he, and overshadows any attention to how it
affects others...

Fuller's willingness to talk to the suit of armor or listen to the
toast is both ridiculous and inspiring - and perhaps a little
touching.  I really don't think he is alone in forming attachments and
imputing communication to inanimate objects...