What is Reality
... The first time he is incarcerated is the point in which he no longer believes there is a line between fiction and reality. ... These two quotes are one in the same; both men believe that you can’t tell fiction from reality. ... Gimpel says, “No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world”, which means fiction and reality are too closely related to separate the two (105). ... Life seems to be reality but at the same time there is no real pleasure, fiction and reality are too closely related to separate the two. Although The Misfit and Gimpel have two very different life experiences, they reach the same conclusion; fiction and reality are too closely related to distinguish between the two. ... People want them to believe fiction rather than reality, but eventually they realize the two things are the same.