Reflection on Tim O’Brien’s "In the Lake of the Woods"

Final questions
1. Comment on the following quote:
“Vice never sees its own ugliness–if it did, it would be frightened by its own image. Shakespeare’s Iago, who behaves in a way that’s true to his nature, sounds false because he is forced by our dramatic conventions to unmask himself, to himself be the one to lay bare the secrets of his complex and crooked heart. In reality, man seldom tramples his conscience underfoot so casually.” (256)
Reading the novel “In the lake of woods,” creates a myriad of emotions. We always try to escape reality just like the way John Wade tried by creating an illusionist world since her father's secret vice and her mother's helplessness is the reality that depicts Wade’s ugliness. The fact remains that the reality will always depict itself at the end, just as it happened to John Wade.
2. Comment on the following quote:
“By taking a new name…an unfinished person may hope to enter into more dynamic–but not necessarily more intimate–transactions, both with the world outside and with his or her ‘true soul,’ the naked self.” (265)
John Wade decided to take the name "sorcerer" due to his ways of taking things into the trickery world. However, taking this form needs a complete transformation since a clear perspective needs to be cemented to believe in one perspective more than the other.
3. Why does the narrator connect Wade’s story to the massacre of the Sioux and the American revolutionary war?
The sichoux and the revolutionary war are among the eminent American history wars, especially in Vietnam, gaining control. Wade's story is connected to the war since he was solder and was involved in the Vietnam war. He constantly used tricks during the war, and he was successful since he came back to the US and later vied for a senatorial position.
4. How does Sorcerer devise a future for himself at the end of his tour of duty in Vietnam?
The fact that John was a soldier in Vietnam and was fond of performing tricks, especially during the Vietnam War, made him reshaped his future of becoming a senator in the United States, especially after losing the first election. He tries out the second time and wins the election through her tricks rejuvenate itself several times. 
5. In the final Hypothesis chapter, we see Wade perhaps killing, and disposing of, Kathy. What do you make of this quote?
“He was Sorcerer now. He was inside the mirrors.” (274)
John Wade is believed to be a sorcerer, and most of his activities entail trickery. Therefore, he does not picture the reality of things; rather, he always takes things from an illusion perspective.
6. Comment on the following quote:
“Whoever undertakes to write a biography binds himself to lying, to concealment, to flummery…Truth is not accessible.” (291”
John Wade was a sorcerer, and most of his life was under a secret trajectory; writing his biography is just a representation of lies since his life remains secretive. In most parts...