ALEXANDRIA ASCIOTI #9/14

"If something should happen to her, though - and something was going to happen - why, of course, I wouldn't want to hang around the old familiar scenes any more. It would be more than a softhearted guy like me could stand, and there wouldn't be any reason to. So I'd leave, and it'd all seem perfectly natural. No one would think anything of it."

The main character in this novel has a dark side to him. He is a murderer and has a mysterious past. He is contemplating on whether he should murder his fiance or not because the darkness is coming over him again. However, if he goes through with this, he must escape out of town so nobody would be suspicious. I feel that the idea of leaving town is a natural feeling, even if you do not have a dark past. Occasionally one might feel lonely and think that nobody would notice if one skipped town. I believe that subconsciously, the main character is feeling a sense of loneliness. He feels like he must leave town because he would need a change in his life and would not be able to continue with the same routine every day.

I chose this picture because it shows someone driving their car away from someplace and they are looking back on it through the side view mirror. I believe the main character would look behind him and through his past. He would attempt to move on from it while making a change to his life.

Jim Thompson. The Killer Inside Me. Vintage Books. 1991. 131.

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