![]() As Mick Kelly, Doctor Benedict Mady Copeland, Jake Blount, and Biff Bannon privately and individually befriend Singer, they each come to see him as a reflection of themselves: a perfect listener who will reflect their own thoughts back to them, writing supportive and kind answers to their deepest, darkest fears and questions on the small pad of paper he always keeps with him. Singer’s loneliness and despair are constant, though he finds distraction and amusement in the fascination that four people develop with him. While at the beginning of the novel he has lived for 10 years with another deaf and mute man, Spiros Antonapoulos, Antonapoulos soon falls ill and is sent away to a mental asylum far from town-leaving Singer alone for the first time in over a decade. John Singer is deaf and mute, and as such, is unable to communicate easily or traditionally with the people around him, though he reads lips with skill. ![]() ![]() John Singer is the novel’s protagonist and central, centripetal force-all of the other characters, desperate for connection and a relief from their isolation, swirl around him. ![]()
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