When it says his hand were trembling and and he hadn't met a kid like this shows he wasn't prepared. But for the first time since his Four groups of the strange system went into operation, Dell put it aside and dug out Dickie Winkleman's three areas of evaluation." (Sloan 60) This shows he is trying something new because he is ambitous about Willows case. "And for the first time in his professional career he was not just motivated. He was almost inspired. The counselor had to add a new group to his system. He had to access the color wheel on his computer and feverishly attempt to create something that would look metallic. Something that would stand out like oozing gold ink. Because Dell Duke believed he had discovered a new category of the strange: Genus." (Sloan 61) This shows that he was inspired and ambitous to discover the secret of Willow.  "When I got to his office, I could see right away that Dell Duke was prepared in a different way. He still looked as if he had slept for the last week in his clothes; but his beard had been trimmed, or at least washed. And his very cluttered office had been straightened up." (Sloan 64). "And in the picture frame, like some kind of lost relative, was a photo of a lemur. " ( Sloan 65) The parts were he had organized his office and had a picture of a lemur and came more prepared shows he was ambitous because he did not usually care that much about other peoples cases.