So much water so close to home
On the other hand, Stuart’s behaviour is also fuelling the suspicious spirit of his wife. Constantly drinking and smoking cigarettes, he looks like someone who is trying to convince himself that nothing has happened (or maybe he is pretending to do so), blurring his mind in alcohol and cigarettes’ smoke (“then he opened a beer and smoked a cigarette”p.74; “Stuart lighted a cigarette 75). At this point of the story we are not able to say whether he tries to cope with this dreadful experience or whether he is hiding something from his wife. After all, what he told his wife seemed pretty confused or at least blurred (by the emotion or by the remorse?) since she fancies about what really happened. His will to get his wife pass over these events is also strange and questionable (“Goddamn it, why can’t people mind their own business? Tell me what I did wrong and I’ll listen! It’s not fair”