The taxi-driver drives the first blind man and his wife to the doctor after the car-thief opportunistically steals their car. Later, the taxi-driver also goes blind and ends up in the protagonists’ ward, but he is soon shot and killed by the soldiers, along with the man who met the girl in the hotel, the policeman who took the car-thief home, and the policeman who took the girl with dark glasses home.
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The taxi-driver Character Timeline in Blindness
The timeline below shows where the character The taxi-driver appears in Blindness. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 5
...patients are “the pharmacist's assistant who sold eye-drops to the girl with dark glasses,” “ the taxi-driver who took the first blind man to the doctor,” the policeman who took the car-thief...
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...assistant’s behest, the doctor explains what he researched just before going blind. After he finishes, the taxi-driver chimes in with his opinion: “the channels that go from the eyes to the brain...
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At lunchtime, the first blind man and the taxi-driver crawl outside into the corridor to retrieve the food, and they return by following a...
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Chapter 6
...identities they do not know. (In fact, they are the man who from the hotel, the taxi-driver , the policeman who took the car-thief home, the policeman who took the girl home,...
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