His story is so real. Some people really have it this way.

for me, it's easy to sympathize because the details are so precise and descriptive. I'm not finding it realistic at all. Maybe it's just me.

I think it's realistic in the sense that Ellison created a world and obeyed its confines so the story makes sense, and in that the narrator

is well written enough to seem like a real person that we as readers can empathize with. But in so far as this series of events unfolding in

the real world, our world, that's absurd.