Chapter 11 Summary

Dwayne wakes up and eats breakfast in the hotel restaurant. He sits at a table next to Cyprian. Cyprian eats breakfast and thinks about how horny he has become. Dwayne leaves the hotel feeling completely normal but quickly resumes his crazy behavior once outside. He walks to his automobile dealership, where a young black man named Wayne Hoobler accosts him. Wayne has just been released from prison and asks for a job; but Dwayne assumes he is hallucinating the young man, and tells him no. Dwayne then enters the dealership and discovers they are having a 'Hawaiian Days' promotion, which confuses him. Harry presents himself to Dwayne - Harry is wearing a colorful and outlandish Hawaiian Days costume. Dwayne assumes he is hallucinating and completely ignores Harry who is devastated.

Chapter 11 Analysis

Wayne Hoobler has spent the last several years in prison reading...