“Mr. Mercedes” (post 2) by Stephen King: Why does the sane Hero, like the crazy Villain (see post 1), have opinionated “parts”

“ 'I get it,' Hodges says. He kneels beside her like a man getting ready to propose marriage in one of those romantic novels his ex-wife used to like. Part of him feels absurd. Mostly he doesn’t" (1, p. 274).

Comment: What the hero and the villain have in common is their author, Stephen King, who, like most novelists with multiple personality trait, would have personally experienced his own “parts,” which he came to think of as ordinary psychology.

But most people do not have any form of multiple personality, and so don’t have opinionated “parts” (alternate personalities).

1. Stephen King. Mr. Mercedes. New York, Scribner, 2014.