The Bank Robber Character Analysis

The bank robber holds up the bank with Ed and his friends in it at the beginning of the novel. He has red hair and, according to Ed, is extremely ugly. Ed commits a seemingly heroic act by stopping the bank robber from escaping, and the robber is sentenced to six months in jail. He threatens Ed by saying that he is a “dead man.” At the end of the novel, the robber gets into Ed’s cab as a customer and instructs him to drive past all the addresses Ed visited in his mission. This reveals that every event in the novel, including the failed bank robbery, was orchestrated by the man with the cards. The bank robber says being arrested and going to jail was worth it because the mission has completely changed Ed’s life for the better.