This policeman escorts the girl with the dark glasses home after she goes blind at the hotel. The officer makes the girl pay for the taxi ride home as a kind of punishment for what he perceives as her apparent moral depravity as a prostitute. (This ironically contrasts with the policeman who takes the car-thief home, who treats the thief in a relatively humane manner.) The police officer who brings the girl home also eventually goes blind and ends up in the hospital, where the soldiers kill him along with eight other internees (including the other policeman, the taxi-driver, and the man from the hotel) while he waits to retrieve food containers.
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The policeman who takes the girl with the dark glasses home Character Timeline in Blindness
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Chapter 3
...has not merely been caught stealing—she thinks that something much worse must have happened. Similarly, a policeman brings the girl with the dark glasses home to her parents’ apartment, but the girl is “overcome with embarrassment” to have been discovered...
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Chapter 5
...the hotel with whom the girl with the dark glasses had sex, and the rude policeman who took the girl home . Then, a huge crowd of uproarious blind people stumbles into the ward. The people...
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Chapter 6
...the man who from the hotel, the taxi-driver, the policeman who took the car-thief home, the policeman who took the girl home , and five people from the other ward.) The group decides to eat first, as...
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