Chapter 24 Summary

Eliot Rosewater's plane lands at the local airport. The narrator notes that Eliot has also been featured as a character in another of the narrator's novels. Meanwhile Dwayne rushes to his automobile dealership and furiously beats Francine. He then drags her into the street and begins to beat her again while he berates her morality. Kilgore uncharacteristically attempts to intervene and stop the beating and Dwayne bites off part of one of Kilgore's fingers. Dwayne then beats up several other people until the police physically restrains him. A large emergency response vehicle quickly arrives and Cyprian Ukwende, apparently an accomplished emergency doctor, begins to assist the wounded. Dwayne is strapped down and begins to randomly shout out seemingly irrelevant phrases.

Chapter 24 Analysis

The final chapter of the novel completes the difficult narrative development without resolution. In other words, the narrative does not conclude...