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Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Night Watchman, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Power, Solidarity, and Community Action
Oppression and Supposed Good Intentions
Humor and Pain
Sex, Violence, and Gender
Agency and Exploitation
Summary
Analysis
Thomas goes back to work at the jewel bearing plant. At the bottom of his timecards, he signs himself “the muskrat,” accompanied by a drawing of a muskrat. He’d been cleared after the stroke, but sometimes it still takes his brain a second to catch up. Occasionally he has trouble finding the right words. The battle with Arthur V. Watkins had been, he fears, “a battle that would cost him everything.”
