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In this passage, the Man sarcastically confesses to his supposed “crimes.” He claims that he planted dynamite on train tracks, sabotaged the American war effort, etc. He adds that he’s been spying on Americans—watching them take their coffee, watch baseball, and so on. The truth, of course, is that the Man has done nothing of the kind: he’s just a regular American citizen who’s being scapegoated by the racist, intolerant American society of the 1940s.
The novel has used sarcasm and irony to make a point before, but never as bitterly as in this closing chapter. The Man knows he’s…