What are some patterns in chapter 13?

In this chapter the reader sees Pat thinks she is responsible for everything. She tells Joe she works for Hollis and killed Wendy Wright. However, the reader finds out in the following chapter she is responsible for very little, if anything, and it seems someone is pushing her to believe her powers are more than what they are. In fact, by the end of the story, the reader may question whether she had any power in the first place. It seems Jory is giving each person a role that plays to their desires and in the long term blinds them to the truth, that they are in half-life. As a precocious, yet rebellious, teenager, Pat wants power and control over the adult world and in half-life she gets her wish.