Ted seems to both love and hate Ellen he calls her a slut, but also “pristine-pure.” In many ways, Ellen reflects the Eve-Mary split so common in the literary representation of women. The men protect her and want to keep her safe.
She is a black woman who provides sex for the men. In the final scene, Benny begins to eat Gorrister’s face, thus motivating Ted into killing both Benny and Gorrister.Įllen is the only woman among the survivors. In an early scene in the story AM renders Benny blind. In addition to being apelike, he is also insane. The computer has changed him into a chimpanzee-like creature with large genitals. One of the survivors, Benny, was a brilliant theoretician and university professor in his previous life, before falling into the grips of AM. During the story, AM plays with each of the survivors in turn, seemingly enjoying their pain and suffering.
Then AM brought the humans inside itself and created a hellish world for them in which it could torture and torment the survivors, but not let them die. AM hates all human beings, according to Ted, because “We had created it to think, but there was nothing it could do with that creativity.” AM killed all the humans on the face of the Earth, save five. When this supercomputer awoke, or became sentient, it called itself AM.
Eventually, the computers learned to link themselves to each other, forming one supercomputer. Originally, AM was one of several national computers designed to fight wars for the nation that owned it. Although not human, the computer, which calls itself AM, is perhaps the main character in the story.
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