On "Dr." Paige Marshall
Hi everyone,
There's this thing I have been wondering about... In the not-so-good movie adaptation of the book (spoiler alert, but not much of a masterpiece anyway 
, it is revealed that Dr. Paige Marshall is in fact not a doctor, but a deluded patient who stays at St. Anthony's voluntarily.
However, at some point in the book, there's a moment when one of the nurses calls Paige "Ms. Marshall", to which she replies in a very defensive way. At some later moment, it is revealed that Paige is in fact married. So do you think there is any real suggestion in the book that Paige might not be a real doctor as well, or did I miss something?
"All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss."
**SPOILERS**
Yeah, with the armband thing, it's pretty clear in the book that she's a patient. Her husband died, and so she was there because of mental stress or whatever.
thanks chris.
i read it so long ago my memory was failing, but that's just about what i remembered.
But still, at the end of the book, Victor receives a phone call from Paige, with her husband talking on the background, so how does this all fit in?
"All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss."
Late the party on this one, but in hindsight I thought the voice in the background was a doctor or male nurse at the ward. She was the one who told Victor it was her husband-- to explain the secretive whispering. But in actuality she was sneaking a phone call from the hospital...not at home.
it's been awhile since i read choke, but i thought it outright said she wasn't at some point, or else it was obvious if you put the pieces together. i remember at the end wondering how she got out of the facility after victor or his buddy found out she was armbanded and locked in like all the rest of the facility live-ins. hole-in-the-plot breakout, i remember thinking.
but its fuzzy. been ages.