The next section I read starts when James is moving into his room and being integrated into the general program. Everyone is assigned a chore which is called their “job” and his happens to be cleaning the bathrooms. One night James has what is called a user dream where he is doing drugs and drinking in his dream but it is almost real. He can’t get back to sleep therefore he decides he might as well get his job out of the way. The bathroom is sparkling when he finally falls back to sleep but when he wakes up, it is a disaster. Roy, a man who has been bugging him recently, is behind this mess. When he begins to yell at James and come after him about the bathroom not being clean, James beats him almost senseless. The supervisors automatically assume that he did it for no reason and was just being out of control which just makes him even angrier.
This instance doesn’t help him keep much faith into the program. The only person who sees through that is the psychiatrist, Joanne, which helps form a bond between them. This all comes back to the question of why the retaliator always gets the blame. Even though Roy started the problem, , that doesn’t make it the right choice. People are expected to fall apart when something terrible happens; it is the people who keep living their lives the same that are truly remarkable.
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