The Evening and the morning and the night by Butler talks about a disease called "Duryea Gode."(DGD) The disease is known to have started due to a parent taking a cancer curing drug before the person with the disease is born. The main character, Lynn happened to have two parents with the disease. After her father kills her mother and he then commits suicide, Lynn goes to college on a DGD funded scholarship and lives with others that have the same disease. At a certain point in this disease people start to "drift." This meaning that people effected lose all control and start to mutilate themselves and even others. Lynn has controlled herself this far and when she meets Beatrice at the ward, she becomes frightened for what may become of herself. She sees Alan's mother who is blinded because she literally scratched her eyes out and she sees people almost acting like animals. This sight would be scary to anyone. Seeing how people act with the same disease that Lynn had made her scared for her own future.
When Lynn meets Beatrice she immediately doesn't like her. Beatrice explains to her that eventually everyone drifts and tells her that she wants Lynn to take her place one day. Lynn clearly knows what happens to someone when they drift because of what happened to her parents so she is hesistant about the topic in general. When Lynn talks about Beatrice's offer she isn't very keen of the idea of spending her life in a ward. Beatrice explains that they help people and keep them from harming themselves further. I feel that in this whole exchange between characters, Butler is trying to get the point across that Lynn should take the job to help herself and others with DGD. Although this means personal sacrifice on Lynn's behalf, she realizes by the end that this is what she needs to do.
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