struggle for control and also the struggle for who is more afraid of death. Jack Gladney throughout the whole novel tries to think that he knows his wife Babette he tries to control her thoughts by saying she is supposed to act a certain way. Jack wants to be the one afraid of death and at the same time wants to get rid of his fear.

In the story Jack confronts Babette about the medicine she is taking, he wants to know what it is and why she is taking it. He tells her that if she doesn't tell him the reasons that Denise will. Jack is very understanding and tells her to take her time telling him. Babette tells him that Gray Research was conducting human

experiments on fear and then decided not to conduct them on humans but on

computers. She told Jack how she made a deal with "Mr. Gray" and in exchange to

continue with the experiment with Dylar (the drug) she would give him her body.

Jacks reaction to this was not the kind you'd expect when your wife is telling you she cheated on you. He was mostly calm, staye

In the end of the novel Jack tells Babette that he is going to meet with Mr. Gray to get some Dylar. In reality he plans to kill Mr. Gray, only everything goes wrong when he tries to do this, and it's almost comical to read. He doesn't succeed in killing Gray but ends up taking him to the hospital. No one ever knows why Jack decided to try and kill Gray. Maybe he actually was jealous that Mr. Gray had slept with his wife or maybe it was because by killing Mr. Gray he could kill his fear of death.

dying, he didn't understand the concept. Now his innocence is gone and he is now

Even to the end of the novel not much about the role of death in the eyes of Jack and Babette changes. The book ends when Wilder is crossing the road on his tricycle and cars are honking and swerving to not hit the little boy while he is in a state of oblivion, he doesn't hear the cars, he doesn't hear the women yelling for him to stop,that's all just 'white noise' to him. Suddenly he falls into a puddle off of his tricycleand begins to cry and he realizes that he brushed death for the first time.

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Approximate Word count = 736
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)