In the story “The Man Who Loved Flowers”, King displays the fluid and fragile nature of humanity through the protagonist’s delusion and other people’s illusion. More specifically, it describe the man believes Norma, his dead lover is still alive; he is unaware of what is happening around him; the roadside people judge the young man only by his appearance and dressing, which are totally deceiving. For instance, he thinks an unknown woman is Norma; when he meets this woman, “His own smile trembled a little, and he felt a moment's disquiet. Her face over the sailor blouse suddenly seemed blurred. It was getting darker now. . . could he have been mistaken? Surely not. It was Norma”(Stephen 3). The young man cannot accept the fact that his beloved has died, so he chooses to escape from reality and repeatedly tells himself Norma does not die, and eventually gets into delusion in some degrees and becomes schizophrenia. this sentence uses rhetorical question to expand the atmosphere of horror, it is also the foreshadows the woman’s death later. The young man get into his own imagination from beginning to the end, after he kills the girl he still thinks: “ …because Norma was waiting for him. And he would find her. Some day soon”(Stephen 4). This sentence once again confirmed the delusion of human nature.