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.