post dos

""It's not a matter of right and wrong," Mr. Whittier would say.
Really, there is no wrong. Not in our own minds. Our own reality.
You can never set off to do the wrong thing.
You can never say the wrong thing.
In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take- what you do or say or how you choose to appear-is automatically right the moment you act.
His hand shaking as he lifts his cup, Mr. Whittier says, "Even if you were to tell yourself, 'Today, I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way...from a dirty boot.' Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot."
Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right.
Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot.
"No matter how stupid your idea," Mr. Whittier would say, "you're doomed to be right because it's yours."" (Palahniuk 60)

This passage made me think a lot. To me it seemed like a good example of the twists in the story so far, because there seems to be a reoccurring idea like "Well, actually..." These 23 characters thought they were going to a writer's retreat in paradise for three months, but actually they got stuffed into a moldy old house with instant food and dim lighting. They thought they'd be able to leave if they needed to, but actually, Mr. Whittier, the organizer, hid the key and would rather die (literally) than tell anyone where it is hidden. In this passage, i saw the motif of "Actually..." appear again, in an argument about what lake a villa was on. This motif defines the story for me, because it seems to center around the big illusions that they are all normal people, but actually, they have disturbing secrets, and they thought this writer's retreat was going to be nice, but actually, it's closer to hell. These misconceptions lead to the increasingly more desperate tones of the stories they tell, and are the reason that the story plays out the way it does.

Questions
1. If you are right about being wrong, doesn't that still mean you were wrong in the first place?
2. What happens if they run out of food?
3. Is someone going to die later in the story?
4. Where are they that no one can find them?
5. Why does Mr. Whittier want them to write so badly? What is he getting out of this?
6. Why doesn't he let Miss America out to get medical treatment for her pregnancy?