Social norm in Box Seat

Dan Moore is a strong man who knows who he wants to live his life and he is more rural than Muriel, who belongs to the urban world and abides by the rules of society which guide the people's lives. Dan sees this as unnatural and wants to save the woman he loves from becoming a puppet of society. He tries to talk with her and convince her to do something spontaneous.
He follows her to the theater as a way to get her to act. His outburst about Jesus in the end is his last attempt at making her think for herself although she has proven that she has chosen to follow the rules of society by suppressing the revulsion at the soiled gift from the dwarf.
Dan is an example of the natural human who has his own thoughts and ideas, while Muriel is an unnatural product of an artificially created society.
Charlotte Carlsson