One of the major themes discussed in Alain de Botton’s Consolations of Philosophy examines human suffering through the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. For the German philosopher, a world without pain makes no sense, since through his rational deduction, pain is essential to our psychic growth in the long term. Andrew Miller seems to take a similar stance, as he fictionally constructs a character who enters the world immune to physical and emotional suffering; hence anaesthetized also to pleasure. Please explore how Miller takes a Nietzschean stance on human suffering, by analyzing the different stages of metamorphosis that takes place with James Dyer, as he goes from an indifferent automaton child to a full-bodied-feeling human being.