Dick did not have many friends and he was not very nice to those friends he did have because they are better than he is. The reason that Dick has practically no friends, except for Perry, is because of the horrid way that he treats other people that are essentially, better than him. For example, the book is telling about a time when Dick was a child and the book states, “As a boy (Dick) he’d so envied the son of a neighbor who had gone to the Gulf Coast on holiday returned with a box of shells-so hated him-he’d stolen the shells and one by one crushed them with a hammer.” This is a violent act because Dick was extremely jealous of this boy because he got to go to the Gulf Coast. To show his anger toward him he crushed the one thing that he brought back from the Gulf Coast. Another example is when the book states what Dick’s enemy is, and the book says, “Envy was constantly with him (Dick); the Enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be, or who had anything he wanted to have.” This quote shows why he is vicious towards many people because the fact is, a lot of people are what Dick wants to be, or has what he wants to have. And this is why Perry and Dick are friends, because Perry is not better, and Perry does not have anything that Dick wants and this cause a friendship between Perry and Dick.