The whirlwind of life spins around you, threatening to grab you up into all of its confusion. The dizziness consumes you, and you try to sort out the mess your life has recently become. Your mind is pulsing, trying to figure out what just happened, and where it has gone. Some of the things that seem so far away in our life flash before our eyes as we grow older.
Everyone counts on something, something to love, something to achieve, or just something to make them happy. Sometimes, those things that we count on can vanish, right in front of us. Francie uttered a thought she had in the novel when her grandfather passed away, “The something which had been a future was now a present and would become a past”, because it was inevitable, but shocking for the death to actually come. The same thing occurred when Johnny died, except Katie was the one feeling this way. Johnny was the youngest of four brothers, who had all died before the age of thirty. Because of this, and Johnny’s drinking, Katie knew he was going to pass away sooner than later, but she couldn’t get over it when the heart wrenching day arrived.
Instances like this happen frequently throughout life, and each one is forgotten as the next one takes place. Sometimes the most important things that leave us threaten to keep us down forever, but in the end it leaves us stronger and wiser. It prepares us for the next time something like this comes around, and we will be ready, if only by a little.
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