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The analysis of "The Client" by John Grisham
upon which Mister died had been replaced with an even prettier one. A fresh coat of paint covered the walls. Even the bullet hole in the ceiling above Rafter’s spot was gone.” (pg. 31). While Michael Brock will never be the same person again.
Before meeting DeVon Hardy, Michael Brock’s life was great: he was highly paid with a good future and promising career. Only the confrontation with the homeless man makes Michael look at his life from a different point of view. He starts feeling guilty about the way he lives, spending $500 on a bottle of champagne while the street people are starving. Because of that the hero of the book intends to discover the reasons why the homeless man, DeVon Hardy, put himself into such a hazardous suicidal position. The encounter with “Mister” hastens the release of Michael’s real calling - street law . It was quelled deep in his heart and had to be awakened. Only Brock will never make even the quarter of the money which he earned at “Drake & Sweeney”. Due to this fact Michael’s marriage with Claire comes to the verge of divorce.
Brock’s wife Claire - an ambitious young surgical resident - is a woman without any warm feelings. She is completely immersed in her work and lives at the hospital in the true sense of the word. Claire is a stereotypical workaholic with the intention to earn as much money as to live in lavishness. She can not reconcile herself to the idea that her husband is going to abandon his career at “Drake & Sweeney” and go to defend the rights of the homeless. Only money makes her life meaningful. To my mind, she is even more miserable than all these filthy street people, because her life is trivial. She works not for the sake of work, but for the sake of money. If she had a hundred dollars less, it would be already a life in poverty for her. Claire can not imagine her life without caviar, salmon, the best champagne and sumptuous restaurants. The thought about the people, starving in the streets and having no money for a slice of bread, does not even dawn on her. Life with less money is a sinking ship for Claire and she runs away from it as a rat. She grounds this by seeking for divorce with Michael Brock and even by turning him out of the house. But her demand for forty of the fifty one thousand dollars they have in their mutual funds, arouses my greatest indignation towards her. Her heart is a stone in the impetuous river of life, firm and split from the eternal cold. Nevertheless, her role in the novel is only the means to disclose the character of Michael Brock, to show his generosity, the serenity and immensity of his heart. The same can be said about Brock’s interior monologues. They are also the way to reveal his character, to look into his inside world, hear his [next page]