The Overcoat Lesson Plan

What might it mean that each party guest describes the sorcerer differently?

When the sorcerer’s true nature is revealed at the wedding reception, each person sees him differently. This speaks not only to human nature but also to the intensity of the sorcerer’s power. It foreshadows the sorcerer’s ability to shift his form and to be manipulative. On a thematic level, it suggests that evil appears to people in different ways, likely according to their own inclinations and temptations. It is also telling that none of the guests could accurately remember the sorcerer. This speaks to how memory can be unreliable and cause shifts in perspective.

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