And this fantasy world is the only thing that he is clinging to. In his ritual and fantasy world, he dreams of a better life. Don't we all do that. Have day dreams of winning the lottery or something. But in the real world they are only day dreams and we all realize this, and go about our hectic lives.
Every person can be both.
The reader only saw negative behavior, I should say almost all negative behavior. Which is how I read the story. He is a very negative behaving person. But the character in the end is both negative and positive.