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He is the son of ''. Alex is quite tall and short-sighted. He has brown hair which he wears in a variety of styles throughout his life, but by old age he is bald and has come to resemble his father very closely. As a sidenote, his name almost certainly derives from Anthony Burgess's '' A Clockwork Orange '' (the protagonist of which is named Alex). His relationship with McGuire is deep and heartfelt, but his obsessions with his father and with Morpheus eventually come to rule his life. In ''The Wake'', he appears again as the child that we see on his first appearance; since this is within The Dreaming , we may conclude that this is his true self, or at least how he sees himself. This may also reflect that the capture of Dream coincides with the time that his father, and his father's captive, begin to dominate Alex. Hence Alex's self-image stops growing at this age. Alex is in many ways a tragic figure, perhaps the first statement of the theme that '' : "The bonds of family bind both ways". Had Alex not been born the son of his father, inheriting the imprisoned Dream, his life would probably have been much happier. |
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