Chapter 8

"I notice all the folders in the usually neat office: stacked upon his desk, on the extra chairs.  Our family is just one folder, I realize, and not a very important one. 64"

I think that these sentences are very interesting.  At first I was just thinking about it literally: this lawyer dude just has tons of folders, and one belongs to this family.  This family's folder isn't very important though, because they aren't paying clients.

Then I move on to more deep thinking.  Do these folders represent their soceity?  Do they think they are just a small unimportant part of it?  But if it was about their community, would they want to be an important folder, because they don't want to stand out?  I guess everyone is just a folder on a cluttered desk, and sometimes we are important to the lawyer, and sometimes, we're not...