At Gately's bedside: the recently graduated nonstick-cookware salesman

pivotal · ? Nov YDAU (post-graduation)

• When: ? Nov YDAU, during Gately's feverish decline in the Trauma Wing; after event 8 (he is "recently graduated"). Latest chronological point for Foss in the book.
• What: Among the human beings who come and go around the burning-up Gately, "At one point Chandler F., the recently graduated nonstick-cookware salesman, seemed to be there in the classic resident-confiteor position, his chin on his hands on the bedside crib-railing." Two new facts ride the clause: Foss has a job (nonstick-cookware salesman — the book's only word on his employment), and as an alumnus he is doing for Gately what residents do at that bed — showing up to sit and confess. The "seemed" is the fever's: Gately's perceptions in this scene run to writhing crib-rails and the late Gene Fackelmann, so Foss's presence is carried with the text's own hedge.