The Quiet American Mortality Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Section.Paragraph)

Quote #10

The doctors were too busy to attend to the dead, and so the dead were left to their owners, for one can own the dead as one owns a chair. (3.2.2.36)

What does Fowler mean by "owning" the dead? Is he secretly the Zombie Overlord? Hades? The Lord of Darkness? Nah, he's probably just reflecting on the sheer amount of death that surrounds him. Families hold on to the corpses of loved ones as though they were dolls.