Approaching the Inmost Cave

Imprisoned in Jerry's Mind

Kerry Cerberus is imprisoned in Jerry's mind as an upper working class girl with aspirations to enter into middle class society through her education. He is a projection of what she will become, and in him she recognises her own faults.

Approaching the Inmost Cave

She walks up the stairs to his room, hypnotically drawn to her quest to interrogate him. It represents her crossing the line from being an initial ally to evolving into an enemy. She invades his room, sussing out an emotional weak spot in his character and starts to needle him. She continues to belittle him, judging him by the standards of the culture she wants to enter into. But in passing judgement about him being unemployed she has condemned herself.

The Ordeal

Kerry's Ordeal

Kerry's ordeal comes when she is stripped away from all the exterior trappings of young professional society and reduced to unemployment.

Jerry and Kerry's Lives Converge

Her life converges with Jerry when he returns home as a young professional in the publishing industry and looks at a parallel of himself in her, thrown back onto her own resources, reduced to the passive voyeurism of unemployment. Kerry Cerberus has now turned into the old Jerry Downing.

Expelled from the Garden of Eden

The hidden energy at work below the surface of his relationship with his flatmates culminates in Jerry's ordeal - eviction from the house. But who is responsible? Jerry Downing is now a drifting soul with no roots in search of a home.