Fate or Coincidence?

Most of our discussion the past week has been about Lee. This is fairly obvious considering he's a main character and we've nearly reached the climatic event, but compared to previous discussions on Lee they've been different. We aren't talking about him per se, or even how deeply connected he is to a larger group of people that guided him, but rather fate and whether or not it really exists for Lee. Now, we may have an answer to that when we think to our lives, but when we think about it in terms of Lee and the bizarre events that have all somehow led up to this oddly perfect plan (in theory), it seems like there may be more than meets the eye. Once again, there is the possibility of us just being human and trying to find a pattern in anything remotely similar, so that's important to keep in mind. 

Like I previously said, quite a bit of our conversations in class end up being centered around Lee and whether or not fate may be involved in his life. The way I read the class initially was that it was kind of a joke, but then Ferrie brought it up to Lee and suddenly we all started to legitimately think about whether Lee's life is being steered by a force like fate. Things juts align too well for Lee's involvement in the conspiracy, such as him somehow always being in the right (or wrong) place just when it's most crucial, he's already made multiple false identities for himself right when he needs to, the place he works just happens to be a prime snipers nest just to name a few. It seems too perfect, even if yet another outside party was steering Lee. Maybe it is just coincidence, maybe it is something more, but we'll never know. Personally, I'm skeptical that fate had anything to do with Lee, but I will say, it's pretty convincing even if DeLillo is inserting things here and there to make it seem like fate is active in this plot.