As his journey progresses, time is illustrated by passing more quickly than what he realizes. Leaves and hedges are changing colors, the constellations in the sky are moving, and the air is also getting colder. His friends are not at home when he expects them to be, and he faces ridicule from the people he had once mocked himself. An example of this could be when his mistress wants nothing to do with him anymore and asks him, “Will you ever grow up?” He also learns that a friend he has known for awhile has also been very ill. All of these changes have happened without his knowledge, and that could possibly be from his denial of certain things, or that he just has not been around as much as he used to be. He then begins to question his memory, but wonders whether he has simply denied the actual reality that surrounds him. Looking towards the end of this story, when the Lucinda River drops him off, Neddy faces a lonely, unfamiliar place because of the consequences of his previous actions. He faced his empty house with sadness and finally realized that time has passed. All this time he has tried to ignore it, but its passing has proven to be
As his journey progresses, time is illustrated by passing more quickly than what he realizes. Leaves and hedges are changing colors, the constellations in the sky are moving, and the air is also getting colder. His friends are not at home when he expects them to be, and he faces ridicule from the people he had once mocked himself. An example of this could be when his mistress wants nothing to do with him anymore and asks him, “Will you ever grow up?” He also learns that a friend he has known for awhile has also been very ill. All of these changes have happened without his knowledge, and that could possibly be from his denial of certain things, or that he just has not been around as much as he used to be. He then begins to question his memory, but wonders whether he has simply denied the actual reality that surrounds him. Looking towards the end of this story, when the Lucinda River drops him off, Neddy faces a lonely, unfamiliar place because of the consequences of his previous actions. He faced his empty house with sadness and finally realized that time has passed. All this time he has tried to ignore it, but its passing has proven to be