The Night Watchman: Thomas 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.”