By navigating these social norms, they settle into their routine. Once the habit is accepted, it means something.” Indeed, Dorothy’s explanations suffice to fit her and Larry into a legible relationship. Everybody agrees that certain clothes are worn for certain activities. The couple’s conversations often revolve around Dorothy’s explanations of human activities, as when Larry asks about her different outfits and their social significance: “To me, it’s a habit. Ingalls uses Dorothy and Larry’s strange arrangement to probe the ways we build lives together. Caliban is a novel that explores the things that stick around for too long, becoming part of our everyday experience, after they’ve outlived their expected shelf life. Larry and Dorothy figure out how to live together, as they settle into a cozy and romantic (albeit, temporary) domesticity, building a life together away from her husband’s and the public’s attention. But then, rather than follow the monster movie plotline and focus on Larry’s escape, Ingalls lingers on the part of the story that most monster movies gloss over. The next development is recognizable to fans of films like ET or the more recent TV show Stranger Things: an unsuspecting housewife Dorothy takes in “Aquarius the Monsterman” and realizes that he’s not dangerous at all. A dangerous creature has escaped a government facility, and a community is in danger. Caliban begins like your typical monster B-movie.
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