“How you make it sound! Sure, everything you say is fact, but none of it is true. Not the way you say it.”

If we didn’t know Stoner, if he were a character in a novel about, say, Finch, what would we make of the Lomax and Walker incident. How do they interpret life and the people around them – how would they understand Stoner? We get Stoner’s POV, but is he right? Can we always side with his interpretations?