how does Bryon explain hippies

Visiting the hippie house with Mark is a hair-raising experience for Bryon, who makes judgments about almost everything he sees. He is able to make these judgments, and make readers feel the same discomfort, because of his first-person narration. For example, he mocks, internally, the girl staring at the ceiling, and checks to see if “the answer to the universe wasn’t written across [the ceiling]” (pg. 122). He makes note of the “stringless” guitar, and the dirty painted steps, and the “kid…lying on a bed watching his fingernails” (pg. 122). Seeing the hippies makes Bryon question what freedom is.