L.A. Class-Reading Blog-Novel Exerpt
This story characterizes the unhappy, spiraling life of a man who seems to have lost everything he once had in his life that provided him reason to stay alive. In the writing, it seems as though he's not asking for sympathy or empathy-he's asking to be heard.
Once his mother died, the man fell into a deep depression, reliving bits of his past through memories, imaging that his mother was still there to be with him and his family. That everything was as it s before and it was all pay. He allowed this desire to grow and fester, and by doing so it overtook his entire life.
Becoming estranged from his family through drinking and money issues, it would appear as through the only time he ever received contact from his now 'former' family after his family left him was when his daughter got married. She notified him, and that was all, with her new name signed at the bottom. This new information, which really brought home to him how far he had fallen from where he once was- that he couldn't even be a part of his daughter's life anymore.
By the continues fall of his life, the man in the story-whose name is not provided to us unless we go by what his mother used to call him, Charley-felt that he was passed his limit. And it's true, what was said-there is no single line to say if you're too far gone, or feel too far gone to be saved. It could be the littlest thing that pushes you over the edge.
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