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[edit] How the Main Characters See Chance

All of the main characters project onto Chance and how they see him varies.

The doctor initially worries that Chauncey will sue Rand for damages following the accident. Later he comes to understand the truth about Chauncey but chooses to hush it up.

Ben, the dying business leader and political king-maker, gains a perception of Chauncey as a failed though totally decent businessman down on his luck. And he sees Chauncey's referal to seasons in gardening when questioned about growth as an inciteful comment about the national economy.

The President quoted Chauncey Gardiner on national TV and held him up to be a wise man and intuitive man.

Eve (Ben's wife) is at first puzzled by Chauncey's strangeness and then thinks of him as having insight and a sense of humor. She sinks her own initial doubts and adopts the consensus view (that he is a great man) and then pursues her own need for friendship, especially when her dying husband signals his assent to her forming a relationship with Chauncey.

The CIA, astounded by their inability to discover any records of a Chauncey Gardiner come to the conclusion that someone has eliminated the entire a record - a feat of such ability that "only a CIA man could have done it!" The FBI instead prefer to think the cover up has been done by one of their own.

The lawyer ... Later the lawyer, keen to make a career in politics seems to view his contact with Chauncey Gardiner as potentially ruinous to his career.

Louise, the maid, sees Chance, whom she has known since he was a boy, on national TV, and declares out loud that he only has "rice pudding between the ears" and that it is certainly a "white man's world" in America.

The general public, as portrayed by the audience in the TV studio and in later opinion polls and represented by the lawyer's girlfriend who is seen watching the program, think that Chauncey is "brillant".

The political elite, seen at Rand's funeral, believe that Gardiner may be their man for the presidency instead óf a second term for the current President.