Quotes from Fatelessness

Quote N°1 (page 22)
The narrator uses a tone based on the deep, on the dark, with a lot of nostalgia and reflections. This nostalgia is reflected with the "cigarrete smoke" that is triying to show depresion and fateless. This is also reinforced with the other descriptions of the setting, such as the annoying noises, the closed window; this "darkness" is the preamble that something bad, really bad, would happen...finally the father had to leave :/


Quote N°2 (page 31)
This quote is such an antithesis because in the first part George shows some sort of detachment to his Mom, but in the end there's a sort of personal mood (he wanted to help his mother, but he preferred to leave).