Pusherman

There are many characters in Naked Lunch usually not interminable but always leaving a lasting impression. "I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune..." Burroughs contemplates on other people and concludes with "the world network of junkies, tuned on a chord of rancid jinssom, tying up in furnished rooms, shivering in the junk-sick morning ." Conveying the message of poking into the mind of a junkie, and finding a cure. Addictions are hard and different from bad habits the pusherman symbolizes how the buzz on drugs can get anyone at anytime. Like a song hummed then caught in your head. Burroughs also uses satire in Naked Lunch. Reading between the lines gets you further than reading the book as a whole. Since our minds don't know everything all at once it takes steps and interpretation and time to realize understanding. Burroughs is also making fun of how naive people are, how easily we are influenced, he includes himself in that statement.