“Gradus/Grey”-Shown is Jacob Gradus, sitting on a part bench in New York City under a tree (“gratus” in Zemblan”). Although Kinbote asserts Gradus will become John Shade’s murderer, the poet is instead killed by an insane man, James Grey in an instance of mistaken identity. (Grey was after Judge Goldsworth-the man who put him into an insane asylum). Grey is represented as Gradus' shadow and dressed in a straight jacket. Gradus holds a gun in his lap.
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