Review Questions: Chapter 3

1.         Toward the end of chapter 2, Doctor Wheelan and Officer Caldwell meet in a convenience store.  What clues to the personal characteristics of these two individuals can be noted from this encounter?  Does the content of chapter 3 reinforce your initial assessment of Doctor Wheelan from the previous chapter?  How would you compare Wheelan and Caldwell as individuals?  What primary differences do you see in their characters?

2.         We are told in this chapter that Doctor Wheelan "wanted her work to answer for something."  What is that "something" that is being referred to here?  Do you think that Wheelan's motivations are justified?  Why or why not?

3.         Consider the images that Doctor Wheelan sees as see takes in the view from her office window at the end of this chapter.  What symbolic value can be found in the descriptions of the river, the forest, and the banyan tree across the street?  Is there significance in the fact that the top of the tree and Wheelan's office are at approximately the same height?  Why would Wheelan care about how she might look to an imaginary bird that happened to spy her from the top of the tree?

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