Alan’s Car
The car that Chris and his mother drive out to the lake symbolizes Chris’s late father, Alan. The car—which belonged to Chris’s father—brings back difficult, painful memories for Chris, due to the fact that…
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The Lake
At first, Chris believes the lake where he and his mother go to scatter his late father’s ashes represents how dysfunctional his relationship with his father was. But eventually, it comes to symbolize a…
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