How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Literature could turn you into an asshole. […] It could teach you to treat real people the way you did characters, as instruments of your own intellectual pleasure, cadavers on which to practice your critical faculties. (50.25)
Affenlight disapproves of Aparicio analyzing Henry as though he's a literary character, but doesn't Affenlight do the same thing to Owen, or to himself? And Pella definitely uses her dad as a literal "cadaver on which to practice [her] critical faculties" at the end of the novel.