Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Night Watchman, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Power, Solidarity, and Community Action
Oppression and Supposed Good Intentions
Humor and Pain
Sex, Violence, and Gender
Agency and Exploitation
Summary
Analysis
The next morning, Patrice goes to work with Doris and Valentine. At work, by the end of the day, people have promised to give her more bottles, weeks’ worth of diapers, a diaper bucket, baby clothes. Betty Pye tells Patrice about a woman who might sell her leftover formula.
Similar to how Thomas and others are mobilizing the committee to help in the effort to oppose the Termination Bill, the larger community also steps in and acts in solidarity with Patrice and her family when they need help.
Themes
