Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Summary and Analysis: Chapter 16

Summary
As he waits at the hotel for Rosen, Deckard reads the profiles of two of the remaining three androids. Roy Baty was posing as a pharmacist on Mars, and Deckard contemplates the androids’ difficult and laborious jobs on Mars as manual laborers for the humans and considers their illegal flight from the outpost as a probable attempt to achieve independence from their servile positions. Baty had also served as a leader of the escaped androids, organizing their flight and administering drugs that he believed would allow them to share in an experience...

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