Graham’s association with the criminally insane, via Lounds’s article and photo, publicizes his existence in a liminal state, which makes his social status questionable. Ingebretsen’s observation that monsters and their pursuers become mistaken for one another reveals the danger that likeness (inherent in the monster-human relationship) poses to greater society. If monsters and their pursuers can be mis taken for one another, and monsters double their human counterparts, who should we fear: the monster or his pursuer? Lecter or Graham? While Lecter remains the monster behind bars, Graham's empathic nature transforms him into an “at-large” monstrous-human. Thus, while likeness sets Graham and Lecter apart from society, it simultaneously draws them into the ordered world as well.
Alexandra Caroll, “‘We’re Just Alike’: Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter, and the Monstrous-Human”