I still can't believe Larry didn't alert the nurse or a doctor about what was happening.
What I'm coming to understand from this inundation with All Things Anna these past few weeks, is that everyone in her sphere was geared like she was - towards the day "her ship would come in."
They all wanted her to get the Marshall Big Money and they seemed to think HKS was the superman who would deliver it. He believed it, ANS believed it and some of the others did, too.
So, I think the same ones who just looked the other way when she was acting so bizarre, as anyone with two eyes could see whenever she was on any kind of TV clip over the past few years, just wanted to humor her and also hoped that by being nice to her, she would be generous with them whenever she got her Big Money.
Therefore, people had to be nice to Howard, too, because he was the "getter" of the money -"someday." ANS was the only one who didn't have to be nice to him, in a boy-girl way - but secretly had to be *very nice* to him about some things where he held that magic power over her head - that he was the only one who could get her the Big Money *and* also let her do whatever she wanted to.
"I still can't believe Larry didn't alert the nurse or a doctor about what was happening."
Too nice of a guy...too timid. Hoped for "a better day tomorrow."