Blue Angel

This section of the book is important because Ted has lost everything he’s had in life, his wife left him and is moving out, and he finds out his daughter Ruby isn’t coming home for Christmas, but instead she’s going to the farmhouse with Sherrie and Arlene. He goes to try and get the film blue angel because he remembers how Angela might’ve watched it and they spoke about it when they were in his office, and he hopes that Angela watches it and is thinking of him. He compares himself to Professor Rath, acknowledging how all along Ted himself has been the clown by playing himself, being tricked and loosing all of his power, loosing his wife and his job, in favor to rewarding Angela to get her novel published.