![]() ![]() Once they escape the compound, she helps her group survive in the city. When one ward begins withholding food and demanding that the women of other wards sleep with them to be fed, she kills the leader of their ward. Once inside, she attempts to help the compound organize, but she is increasingly unable to hold back the animality of the compound. At this point she is interned with the rest of the afflicted. Unable to leave her husband to be interned, she lies to the doctors and claims to be blind. ![]() This phenomenon remains unexplained in the novel. The doctor's wife is the only character in the entire novel who does not lose their sight. When they finally leave the quarantine, the group of blind internees travel to his house. Much of this authority, though, comes from the fact that his wife can see and gives him inside information into the goings ons of the quarantine. The doctor is an ophthalmologist who is stricken blind after treating a patient with "the white sickness." He is one of the first people to be quarantined and, due to his medical expertise and the fact that he and his wife were the first internees, he has a certain authority in the quarantine. ![]()
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