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Panel 2: The “crude sexual insults” toward Dr. Long
from his wife mirrors the similarly crude insults we can infer Rorschach
received in Chapter II, Page 25 as
he cruised through the red light district and did not respond to the
prostitute’s propositions, just as Dr. Long had stopped responding to his
wife’s propositions. These two are now
more alike than Dr. Long might like to admit.
Panel 3: Note
that the pain killers Dr. Long has been taking have a typical warning at the
bottom – “Caution: Do Not Exceed Stated Dose” – and from what we have seen
throughout this issue, it is easy to assume Dr. Long has been regularly
exceeding the stated dose.
Panel 5: Dr. Long’s description of what he sees in
this “butterfly” Rorschach blot is evidence of the transformation he has
undergone in this chapter, a transformation symbolized by the presence of this
“butterfly” blot.
The
grubs he describes in the caption, “frantically tunneling away from the light,”
are symbolic of the populace at large, and of Randy and Diane and his wife,
specifically. They were the ones who
asked him about “weird” and “kinky” things that Rorschach may have shared with
him, but when Dr. Long revealed the truth of what Rorschach told him, with the
all too real horrors inherent with the story, they were reviled by it and
pulled away, just as the grubs did in the dead cat Dr. Long saw so long ago.
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