Chapters 12, 13 and 14 Summary

Chapter twelve begins with Jones's narration of another bad dream. In this one, he and Alice are shopping at a drugstore. When they leave, Jones discovers that one of his purchases has turned into a gun. Meanwhile, Alice runs away. As Jones chases her, she is caught by a pack of animals and killed. As he discovers her body, Jones realizes he's being watched by "millions of white women ... giving [him] the most sympathetic smiles [he] ever saw". As he recovers from the dream, he prepares to go to work. He picks up his co-workers as usual, and as usual, they banter and bicker amongst themselves, with only a few of them aware that something is wrong with Jones. At work, Jones's gang kills an hour of work time by first debating how they're going to defend him and then telling...