Empathy 2
Empathy is not just a matter of understanding people we like. Its greatest use, perhaps, is in helping us to understand people who are unfamiliar to us, and whom we may even hate or despise. It is surely important to understand the Other, especially when the Other seems beyond our normal understanding. In Room, the most Other person is Old Nick, the kidnapper. Most readers of the novel, or who read real-life cases...