Previous
Chapter 36
Themes
and Colors
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Careless People, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Carelessness, Wealth, and Greed
Idealism and the Failed Promises of Technology
Sexism in the Workplace
Bureaucracy and Obstacles to Change
Summary
Analysis
Over the next few months, Zuckerberg goes on a carefully curated tour of small towns in presidential battleground states, all while publicly denying that he’s running for president. His public speeches similarly attempt to take on a grander tone. When Zuckerberg gets bad press about kicking native Hawaiians off land he owns in Hawaii, he gets unusually annoyed by the bad press and takes half-hearted measures to get rid of it. Zuckerberg also has Facebook’s board give him a new stock structure that would permit a run for office.
The start of Zuckerberg’s potential presidential campaign is not promising, with him seemingly afraid to admit that he is actually campaigning. The way that Zuckerberg gets annoyed about bad press shows how he has moved beyond the period where he didn’t care—or at least pretended not to—how others perceived him in public.
Active
Themes
Meanwhile, Wynn-Williams continues to look for other jobs unsuccessfully. Her health continues to be poor as she gets news that she has precancerous growths, making it difficult for her to imagine going without employer-sponsored healthcare.
Active
Themes
