How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"I needed that rifle, for itself and for the way it completed me when I held it." (3.2)
And again, gunplay comes into the scene, this time as a way of showing him what kind of a man he is. It's an illusion, like a lot of other things in the book, but it definitely fools him.
Quote #5
"We should have looked cool, but we didn't." (5.20)
It wouldn't be masculinity without a little insecurity creeping into the mix, now would it?
Quote #6
"He was grinning. He crossed the room and sat on Skipper's bed. Still grinning, he said, "Who won?" (12.38)
Dwight seems to be trying to make a man out of Jack. The fact that his idea of "being a man" means beating up a lonely kid at school says a lot about Dwight. Interesting that Jack seems both attracted and repelled to this notion. It could be that he sees Dwight's idea of manliness as "normal" and wants it because of that, even though he's not comfortable with what it entails.