Topic > Drugs and Addiction in Denis Johnson's "Jesus Son"
There is no apparent connection, and it takes a while to get the idea that Johnson deliberately chose this organization. It's almost a reflection of Fuckhead's confusion, self-destructive lifestyle, and the pain and agony he feels. The author sets a dark and depressing tone, occasionally lightening the reader's mood with comic inserts. In “Two Man,” for example, Fuckhead tells of a man named Stan, who runs into a stop sign while chasing a car (Johnson 22). In “Emergency,” he meets a man whose wife stuck a knife in his eye because he had been peeking at another woman (Johnson 70). Although these are painful and even gruesome situations, Johnson manages to tell them in a satirical way
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