In
, Mr. Harvey is, disturbingly, a predator and serial killer living in Susie
Salmon's unsuspecting, quiet suburb. He is the perpetrator who assaults and murders Susie, and
the story unfolds through her point of view as she watches her family grapple with her
disappearance from the afterlife. When Mr. Harvey goes to Connecticut, he comes upon a little
shack with a tin roof. He recalls strangling to death and later burying a waitress here. After
the attack, he stole her tip money and used it to purchase pants. He discovers, when he enters
the shack, that her grave had been dug up. He falls asleep beside it.
In the
middle of the night, at 2:00AM, Mr. Harvey is still asleep in the shack as it rains outside. He
dreams about Lindsey, Susie's younger sister, an avid soccer player and star student. He
envisions her soccer jersey as she ran away from his house, which she had broken into looking
for evidence of what could have happened to Susie. Mr. Harvey has this dream when he feels
"threatened." (Chapter 20, Paragraph 36) He also feels that moment, when he watched
Susie flee his house unharmed, was when his life began to spiral.
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