George Harvey is
eventually suspected of being a serial killer, which he is, but he is never caught or punished
for the crime. There was never enough definitive proof to arrest him.
At the
end of the novel, Susie moves on into a larger part of heaven but she is still able to watch
events down on earth. One day she sees Harvey getting off a bus outside of a restaurant in New
Hampshire. Harvey sees a young woman near the restaurant and tries to accost her but she
refuses to speak to him, lucky for her. Susie notices some large icicles hanging from the roof.
After the woman leaves Harvey, one of the icicles falls and hits him on the head, he tumbles
down a ravine and is ultimately killed.
So, he is punished by a higher power
in the end and the reader is left hoping that he will have some explaining to do wherever he
winds up going in the afterlife (this is my addendum, not part of the book).
This novel is similar to the "magical " made popular by several Hispanic
authors. Magical realism blends magical or spiritual elements into a realisticin order to arrive
at a deeper understanding of reality. The novel is realistic in most of its elements, but then
there is the element of the afterlife, the spiritual, etc., which requires a reader to venture
into spiritual realms.
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