The Role of Secrets in Disco
Throughout the chapter Disco Jason and other people in his life start to reveal a lot of secrets that have been building and weighing on him over the course of the book. He starts by revealing how Neal Brose has been extorting him for "popularity lessons", then later he finally tells Michael about the broken watch, and Michael tells Jason about the divorce (Mitchell 260; 277-278). There's also the lesson from Miss Lippetts about secrets, which may have been part of the reason he finally talked about the watch, and it also one of the few times Jason has said anything in class. It seems like that made Jason start to reconsider the secrets he had been keeping after seeing it in a classroom setting, though by that point he had already started to throw out a lot of already arbitrary rules. The one secret that he doesn't tell anyone in this chapter is his connection to what happened to Ross Wilcox, which may have been more so because he didn't think he needed to do ...