Pages 252-253: How do you think Liz dies?
Well I can only assume that Liz died of natural causes. The website link that has the annotations Prof. Talbird posted also has characters and details/background info of each character. For Liz, the website says she has high blood pressure and she's asthmatic. In these pages, she just got off the phone with Edie. I think that her conversation with Edie, which contained a lot of excitement, triggered Liz's death. I think she either had a stroke from the result of her high blood pressure or she went into an asthma attack and slowly died from lack of oxygen.
Page 262: The last line has no punctuation mark.. Why do you think this is?
This is clear that Gaddis intentionally meant to do this. The ending line is Paul talking to Edie, as they're leaving together, telling her "I've always been crazy about the back of your neck" & I feel Gaddis left the punctuation period out to purposely show that the story would have continued on for Paul & Edie the same or at least in a similar way to that of Paul and Liz's relationship. Paul's character is stubborn and set in his ways, so we can presume that the cycle will just continue on.
Good reading of the end, Jennette, though you may want to rethink your interpretation of Liz's death. Look at the penultimate paragraph on p. 253: "...the corner of the table caught in a glance at her temple as she went down." Remember, the paper reports that she's been slain on the next page, there's a chalk line where her body was, an FBI agent questioning Paul. What is the significance that she dies in such a freak way?
ReplyDeletei think that McCandles probably killed her out of anger because she didnt want to leave with him. She does always leave the door open and so maybe he snuck in and did what he had to do to her and left her there and then when Paul came home he saw her dead their ?
ReplyDelete