PL hel“Good question, good question,” [the Whether Man] exclaimed. “Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you’re going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not. Now what else can I do for you?” And before Milo could reply he rushed into the house and reappeared a moment later with a new coat and an umbrella. “I think I can find my own way,” said Milo, not at all sure that he could. But, since he didn’t understand the little man at all, he decided that he might as well move on – at least until he met someone whose sentences didn't always sound as if they would make as much sense backwards as forwards. —The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster Milo later refers to the Whether Man as “strange.” What influences his perspective on the Whether Man? what the Whether Man wears how the Whether Man speaks what the Whether Man looks like how the Whether Man moves