...by the end I thought Ed was an Android too, since he was playing the record with his hand. I know, kind of a stupid leap, but it made for what I thought was an intriguing understory, one where the non-normals were all trying to get in good with the (higher-status) normals for survival. The pig lady, for example, chumming it up with the half wit wife, who is eventually stolen away from bored Ed by his droid mistress, who in the end has the relationship with the 'normal', exposing Ed as a droid too, who once had it made but got played and lost his gravy train, now back to square one with nothing.
The undertone of this is that the 'normals', no matter how stupid, were at an higher status that the non normals, no matter how superior, and that they were vied for and manipulated by the desperate non-normals, while being unaware of the game or the immorality of the cast system of which they were at the top.
Ok, So I over extrapolated. I came here to see what the story really meant, and it seems that it's a bit thin. So maybe I'll just pretend my interpretation is the 'real' insider's plot line, which is in keeping with P.K.Dick's style of shifting perspectives: I.e. which plot is it?
Review of Crazy Diamond
