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Characters in Do Androids Dream? don't carry the usual character ID cards of "good guy," "bad guy," or "comic relief sidekick." They're fluid concepts, shifting and changing depending on their environment—a lot like regular old people, come to think of it. Future society tries to peg individuals with concrete identities and even speech patterns, like how all the humans in the house say "Hey!" and the androids say "Ho!" But as the longest day of Rick's career continues, the identities of humans and androids begin to seem a lot less important. Maybe androids are human; maybe humans are androids. And maybe it doesn't really matter in the end either way.
Rick can be identified as a bounty hunter throughout the novel, but how he defines that identity changes as Rick continues on his quest.
When Isidore pictures a bounty hunter (i.e. Rick), he imagines a mechanical, nightmarish creature. When he sees Baty, he notices the same qualities. These similarities suggest that androids and humans aren't so different, after all.