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unlike other Asimov characters, who are individuals isolated by job or temperament, Baley has a family: a wife, Jessie, who had enjoyed a small, wicked pride in the name Jezebel until Baley told her that Jezebel was not a painted hussy, and a son, Bentley ("Ben"). Baley also has experiences that keep flooding into his mind: the childhood games of running the strips and hide-and-seek with guide rods (whose gradual warming leads visitors toward their destinations), an uncle who worked in Yeast-town (once Newark, New Brunswick, and Trenton) and gave him illegal yeast treats when he was a child.
The changes that the reader perceives in Baley mirror the changes in the basic theme of urging Earthmen into a relationship with robots (C/Fe) that would make possible the colonization of uninhabited worlds. As the novel begins Baley is vigorously opposed to robots (but not so opposed that his intense feelings of duty and loyalty cannot persuade him to work with a robot). He is gloomy and sardonic as well as a thoughtful man whose fascination with history (like Asimov's) leads him into a variety of historic comparisons and reflections. But his first impulses, to prove that there has been no murder or that if there has, it was committed by a Spacer or by Daneel himself, push him into blind alleys and near disaster. He is not, as he himself reflects, the cool, intellectual detective of fiction; his disturbance at bringing Daneel home makes him forget the murder for a while.
Gradually, Baley begins to change. He listens to Dr. Fastolfe's idealistic plea for the future of humanity. He first rejects the notion of Earthmen going to other worlds and then begins to consider it. He notices the smells of the City for perhaps the first time. He grows used to the presence of Daneel and wonders whether it would be possible to work beside robots to colonize another world. He finds himself echoing Fastolfe's arguments to a Medievalist leader. He begins to confide in Daneel and even to think well of him. "Whatever the creature was," he reflects, "he was strong and faithful, animated by no selfishness. What more could you ask of any friend? Baley needed a friend and he was in no mood to cavil at the fact that a gear replaced a blood vessel in this particular one."
Finally, at the end of the novel, Baley's conversion to Fastolfe's goals is more important than the discovery of the murderer. Enderby is persuaded, on the promise that his crime will not be revealed, to throw his efforts and the strength of the Medievalists behind the attempt to move Earthmen toward extraterrestrial colonization. And Baley finally says to Daneel, "I didn't think I would ever say anything like this to anyone like you, Daneel, but I trust you. I even admire you." And

 
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