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« on: September 21, 2013, 10:30:31 AM »
Stokes pushes Adam onward into his egotism and terrible-twos phase, and into Nick's waiting arms, by blowing completely his talk with Adam about why he can't expect love from Carolyn. He bases it on how different he is from her, first in terms of economic class and cultural sophistication, and then in terms of Adam's basic difference in nature because he was made in a laboratory, not "naturally". Adam's just not good enough for Carolyn, in other words. Adam's clumsy, poor, and creepy.
He should have told Adam why it's not good to try to force affection, or use force period, and how there's a difference between friendship and being in love, and that the former is a wonderful thing, not to be undervalued.
Revealing Adam's true nature to him bluntly and without providing any real context or cushioning was totally inept. Stokes talks about Lang's great dream, but is still presenting Adam's artificial origin as a bad thing, in that it means Carolyn will never, ever want him because of it.
Adam should not necessarily have been horrified by his origin in a lab. He doesn't necessarily know that that isn't how everyone's made.