Part 2, Chapter 2 Summary

Will leaves the greenhouse and walks to his car that Allison has retrieved. He gets in his car and looks around, and then gets in the back seat. He remembers the hunting trip where his father shot him. He thinks that he has learned a deep existential truth. Will knows that he will not let various forms of living death overtake him - he will live. Will thinks of all the various existential things that won't be able to defeat him. He then goes to sleep in the back of his car in the parking lot of the Linwood golf course.

Part 2, Chapter 2 Analysis

Chapter 2, the second-shortest chapter in the novel, is the third of three chapters not further sub-divided into sections. The chapter is dominated by Will's existential rambling thoughts about the nature of life, death, and a sort of...