No one can see me, no one would stop me, no one could help me. They
would just call the cops but it would be too late. My only regret is not
stopping. She’d have the coffee on. There was a time during my search for a
cure when I tried everything to stop including giving up feeing. The smell
filled the room. I loved to drink a bottle of scotch in the house, to say sorry
to her after we’d spent another night together. I’d tell her now it’s going
okay except for the poison. It’s going okay except for how much I miss her and
still care. a lot? a little? ! I’ve never been a very good husband. [From
Joshua Ferris’s The Unnamed]
No one can see me, no one would stop me, no one could help me. They
would just call the criminals but it would be too late. My only regret is
stopping. She’d have the coffee on. There was a time during my search for a
cure when I tried everything to stop including giving up not feeling. The smell
filled the outdoors. I loved to drink a cup of juice in the apartment, to say
I’m not sorry to him after we’d spent another day together. I’d tell her now
it’s going okay except for the poison. It’s going okay except for how much I
miss her and I don’t care. A little? A lot ?! I’ve never been a very good wife.
[From Joshua Ferris’s The Unnamed]
The tone changed to a darker tone and it become a lot more cynical
because the speaker didn’t want help and didn’t want help like in the first
paragraph. The whole meaning changed by changing the words around in the first
paragraph he was a normal gut but in the second paragraph he’s a lot more
complicated and involved with criminals and in the second paragraph we cant
clearly see what’s going on … unlike the first paragraph where we see that he
clearly has an alcohol addiction.
