Bittersweet GoodbyesYeah, yeah, we know, Charles and Marcee are also characters. Well, they're characters who are actually delusions, but in any case they're definitely not your typical "symbols."...

Good Riddance to Bad RubbishIf Charles and Marcee represent the kind of good side of John's delusions (hey, at least they're friendly ghosts), Parcher symbolizes the scary side. Instead of supporti...

When John ends up in hot water in grad school for not going to class or having made any progress on his research, his professor shows him a ceremony among Princeton faculty as a kind of "kick in th...