One of the most delightful things about your characters is the difference between how they view themselves and how we are able to see them-and how the other characters on the page see them. The idea of self-delusion runs through your books in a delightful way. A lot of times people read fiction because they are looking to escape from their own world into a better world, and when they don't find a better world in my fiction, it's disconcerting. Because it isn't an idealized world. I think we all have skewed perceptions of one another.
Nobody has a clear objective view of what someone else is like, really.
We're always being surprised by new revelations, new situations that reveal different aspects of a character, whether good or bad. Mr. Norris, whose wife has outed him, essentially, and there's kind of a little flashback episode. Mr. Norris remembers the one man he loved, Ward, who he would give his life for. He wanders home one day and Ward is naked in the bathroom, and so is Mrs. Norris, and he sort of walks out. It's also, there's a little bit of the comic cruelty of the world.