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I know this is an older post, but I just watched and I would love to chime in…

This is all the day-dream, imaginary scenarios/stories of the janitor periodically coming into conflict with reality as well as his deteriorating mental state.

It’s like a self-insert book where he highlights the good parts, and paints over the bad parts. He writes “Jake” to be well-read, sensitive, caring, but also insecure, and vulnerable in a humanizing way. His girlfriend is intelligent, successful, a physicist, painter, poet, doctor. Her name changes because it’s either unimportant, or because his memory is failing with his health.

Jake’s part is like the writer catching himself being insecure. Jake has to know enough and be sensitive enough to catch her attention, and know about his stuff as well as hers. Then reality hits, and she’s way more put together than him. He gets unbelievably angry, but never hurts her. Then he calms, and relents. He caught himself attempting to have more control of the story than he ought to.
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