![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually he and two veterans are arrested when they’re caught riding freight trains. After starting at Vassar, he leaves after three semesters and starts to roam the country, changing his name and picking up odd jobs for a few weeks at a time and then moving on. When he turns 15, Daniel elects to move from California to live with his father and stepmother in Connecticut, but he is never quite able to settle down. He also wonders to what extent he might bear some responsibility for Daniel’s disaffection, for the doctor and Daniel’s mother had gotten divorced when their son was quite young, leaving Daniel feeling unmoored and homeless. Allen is a brilliant diagnostician, able to sort through a welter of conflicting symptoms to reach to the heart of a patient’s disease, and he tries to apply these same techniques to the news of his son’s shocking arrest. Paul Allen is at least trying to be a good father, though perhaps he crosses the line into paranoia when his son Daniel is arrested for assassinating Senator Jay Seagram, a promising presidential candidate.ĭr. ![]()
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