The story begins in-media-res in a day of the narrator and main character’s childhood. She, as well the as the rest of the characters, is introduced in this first piece of the story, which is representative of the rest of the story, as it is the first of the many flashbacks we are introduced to. These flashbacks make up the most essential element of the structure of the story. They serve the purpose of linking the present and past in order for us to understand the …show more content…
This royal treatment of the “idea” of Terry is also evident in the way she feels guilty about not thinking about him more often: I don’t think about Terry every day, anymore. And sometimes I’m stunned by that fact. It isn’t the only discomfort of disloyalty I feel, it’s the fact of utter disappearance after death, as well as trying to give him the royal treatment he is entitled to, after his death: So I put him in the dresser drawer I use for the few really fine scarves and gloves I posess, the softest place of storage I could