Danielle Grava 12/12

"There was a time when he would have apologized for disturbing the man and never come back to the newsstand. For years he had taken shit unlimited from people. Not anymore. The man could have insulted Francis Dolarhyde: he could not face the dragon. It was all part of Becoming."

At this point of the novel Dolarhyde is accepting the hero he has created in his mind. Before it was just something he fantasized about, now he is making it his reality and encompassing this character he believes is the Red Dragon. I feel like once you allow yourself to accept and truly become this "new" person is when you experience a tragic downfall. I can definitely see that happening to Dolarhyde just as it happened to Charlie Sheen.

Thomas Harris, Red Dragon, (Dell Publishing, 1990) pg. 211

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