Critical Commentary
The story has been described as Dick's "first tentative try" at Frederik Pohl's "tunnel under the world" theme, in which it's imagined that mundane existence is totally a product of unseen manipulators. In Philip K. Dick and Philosophy, one critic saw the story as underscoring Dick's lifelong artistic concerns with "ethics, existentialism, and philosophy", saying that the story (and the film loosely based on it) were ultimately "about how to live."
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