Jason Fitz

Dwelling Memory

Tim seems to be having flashbacks from the day he had killed that young slender man with a star
shaped hole in his eye. Since his daughter had asked him if he had killed anybody, Tim responds
with a lie but then imagines Kathleen as if she was an adult. Showing to be unemotional towards
his daughter, he grasps onto nothing but guilt inside. He tries to forget about it but the memory of
the young man reappearing to him from the fog every now and then. “Even now I haven’t
finished sorting it out. Sometimes I forgive myself, other times I don’t. In the ordinary hours of
life I try not to dwell on it,”(O’Brien 134).