The Self-Deception of a Homeless Man

In both pieces of the story, the brothers seem to be having a more sensitive experience of their own lives. What's really telling for me is when these different responses to the homeless man are listed and one person says they're repulsed by him. We can't actually imagine a human living in that time with that life. So then it gets pushed into invention, which is what we were complaining about in the first section.