The question as to whether the hallucination Tom is having is a collective hallucination, shared by the other psychoanalysts, remains ambiguous throughout the narrative. Tom imagines his wife, Jane, (who is at home throughout the novel's action) committing various infidelities. Tom imagines Jane having a variety of sexual experiences both with himself and with other men. The difficult subject of their childlessness is a theme in his fantasies. The style Antrim deployed in his trilogy (of which "The Verificationist" is the concluding volume) is a mode of surrealism which resembles both magical realism and hysterical realism. "The Verificationist's" diction, in particular, may be characterized as being replete with the kind of psychoanalytic jargon that is the natural idiom of the book's psychoanalytic narrator, Tom. It is unclear why Antrim chose to title this work The Verificationist as there is no clear link between the attitudes of the narrator and the philosophical movement from the early 20th century known as Verificationism.